Mary Merrifield
Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.
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Maria Sibylla Merian
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Lydia Shackleton
Irish botanical artist, teacher, and poet
Evelyn Healy
Australian artist, community activist and peace activist
Clara Tice
Clara Tice is known as the “Queen of Greenwich Village” due to the role her erotic and revolutionary illustrations played in the Bohemian/modernist scene of Greenwich Village during the 1910s and 1920s. Her illustrations, many of which depicted nude women and animals, simultaneously caused controversy and were celebrated. Tice exercised her artistic ability in all of the careers she pursued throughout her life, ranging from set designer to children’s book editor.
Edith Blake
Irish botanical illustrator and writer
Violet Oakley
American illustrator and designer
Thyra Avis Mary Acres
New Zealander Thyra Avis produced a comic strip and books featuring two pohutukawa fairies called Hutu and Kawa, which conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos.
Fanny Osborne
From both scientific and artistic points of view, Fanny Osborne’s paintings of the flowers of the indigenous trees, shrubs, vines and herbs of Great Barrier are exceptional and superbly crafted examples of botanical illustration. They
Marianne North
English naturalist and flower-painter