Botanical Artist and Illustrator
Marianne Hazlewood
Welcome to my site, enjoy a browse through my botanical art and illustrations. I update regularly with news, exhibitions and you can shop with me as well, please get in touch if you have any questions.
Classes >>
Botanical illustration day at Hugo Burge Foundation, Greenlaw, Duns, 27 June 2025 – FULLY BOOKED
Botanical illustration weekend at Netherby Hall Walled Garden, Longtown, Carlisle, 12 & 13 July 2025
Exhibitions >>
Botanica Scotia – Botanical Art Worldwide, The Custom House Gallery, Leith, Edinburgh, 15 – 20 May 2025 & 13 – 28 July 2025 V&A Dundee
The Artisan Gift Shop, Old Gala House Museum & Gallery in Galashiels, with Live Borders, 14 June – 30 Sept 2025
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Portfolio >>
Fabric & Wallpapers >>
Commissions >>
News >>
A US Odyssey – the Hunt Institute, ASBA Conference & Annual exhibition, and more…
Arisaema costatum on the front cover of The Botanical Artist
Residency with The Hugo Burge Foundation, June 2024
17th Hunt International Series Exhibition, Autumn 2024
The W Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award at Visual Arts Scotland REVERB 2022
Herbology News – The Energy Issue
Our garden featured in BBC’s Gardeners’ World, ep 13
Article in The Botanical Artist, ASBA publication Dec 2019
Contemporary Botanical Illustration
Greening the Grey & Greying the Green…
I love to bring the lush greens of the plant world onto walls and into homes, I feel it is so important to recognise the importance of plants to this planet’s wellbeing and also for our own mental health.
My work as a botanical artist and illustrator is a meld of the fascination that I feel for my plants, their structure and life cycle. This, combined with my approach to composition, honed during my years as a graphic and web designer, fuels my motivation and delight at being able to work with them. I specialise in capturing detail in my botanical art. Green, and colour very definitely fuel me, if I don’t get enough of it I can feel starved, however I am also, and will always be, in love with monotone and the structure that comes through when you are looking through a restricted pallet. So I do both, I work in colour and with monotone techniques. Usually for very different purposes, but always to show some element of a specimen that I find fascinating!
I currently exhibit with the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. I also show with the VAS and SSA Opens, at various botanical art societies and I am a graduate of the Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, I have an RHS gold medal, a BISCOT gold medal.
I am interested in connecting and working with botanists, horticulturalists, environmental scientists, botanical artists and illustrators and other artists, and in taking on commission work. I am also looking forward to the new projects on my ever growing to do list; some more ink work, watercolour and recently I have been delving into printmaking.
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