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 weekend at Netherby Hall Walled Garden, Longtown, Carlisle, 12 & 13 July 2025

Exhibitions >>

Print Show at Restoration Yard Curated Emporium, Dalkeith Country Park, 10 March – April 2025

The Nature of Art Edinburgh, The Custom House Gallery, Leith, Edinburgh, 25 – 27 April 2025

The Artisan Gift Shop, Tweeddale Museum & Gallery in Peebles, with Live Borders, 22 March – 31 May 2025

In Bloom, at The Gallery Holt, Norfolk, 5 April – 13 May 2025

Plantae 2025, The Mall Galleries, London 28 May – 7 June 2025

Botanica Scotia – Botanical Art Worldwide, The Custom House Gallery, Leith, Edinburgh, 15 – 20 May 2025 & 1 – 31 July 2025 V&A Dundee 

On a Small Scale – Open Eye Gallery, Online

 

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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

The Bean Bag – Artist Spotlight

Herbology News – The Energy Issue

Our garden featured in BBC’s Gardeners’ World, ep 13

Article in The Botanical Artist, ASBA publication Dec 2019

Gold at RHS 2019

Gold at BISCOT 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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Marianne Hazlewood illustrating Arisaema totuosum