I  have a breadth of knowledge within the Visual Arts and was awarded my M.A. from the University of Sussex following my post-graduate studies at West Dean College, Chichester.  My passion however is the portrayal of plants.  I studied Botanical Illustration under the tuition of Anne-Marie Evans at the English Gardening School in Chelsea Physic Garden, London.

 

I then went on to become a tutor of the subject teaching at both the English Gardening School and West Dean College as well as running workshops at numerous venues, including The Wallace Collection, Sarah Raven’s Cutting Garden, The Museum of Garden History, The Eden Project, The National Trust as well as private groups.

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Currently I am running botanical painting workshops at A Taste for Art in Bosham, West Sussex and College Arts near Basingstoke.

For more details do contact me info@mariellabaldwin.com, or cestride@gmail.com for Bosham and katie@collegearts.co.uk for Basingstoke

I have exhibited both in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and have numerous paintings in both private and public collections.

 

I am a member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society, an organisation which is in the process of documenting the historic collection of plants within the garden.  Two visits to The Transylvania School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Romania to document some of the wild flowers growing in the ancient meadows has been inspirational.