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. All content is written by me, using natural intelligence (-_-)
Classes >>
Botanical painting & Yoga weekend, Carlops, Pentland Hills, Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026
Unwind and let it all go, with a weekend focusing on observation, creation and yoga
Exhibitions >>
On a Small Scale – Open Eye Gallery, Online, 20 Nov 2025
Winter Popup, 52 High St, Newport on Tay, 9 Oct – 24 Dec 2025 – EXTENDED To March
Shop >>
Portfolio >>
Fabric & Wallpapers >>
Commissions >>
News >>
Fitness for artists – a blog post…
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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