Botanical Art of Susan Aldworth, Biography

Susan Aldworth is a freelance botanical artist and illustrator with experience in text-book editing and illustration (biology and science), website design, botanical art, and botanical art instruction. She teaches Botanical Watercolor classes at the North Carolina Botanical Garden at Chapel Hill (NCBG classes) and at the Page Walker Arts and History Center in Cary, NC (Page Walker classes). She holds a position on the NCBG Botanical Illustration Certificate Program Advisory Council.

Master of Arts Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (Art, Botany, English), Iowa State University, USA.
Bachelor of Arts Honours (English), University of Natal, South Africa.
Bachelor of Arts (English, Fine Art), University of Natal, South Africa.
National Diploma in Horticulture, Technikon Pretoria, South Africa.

Artist's bio: My artistic career began in 1988 when I enrolled in a BA program and majored in Art (Printmaking) and English. I later attended classes in Biological and Pre-medical Illustration (BPMI) at Iowa State University, which led me directly to an Interdisciplinary MA degree majoring in art, botany, and English. For this degree, I wrote, designed, illustrated, and published a book, website and CD ROM on 100 trees and shrubs of the Iowa State University campus (...read more). After graduating, I edited and illustrated a college-level General Biology study guide for an educational publisher. I then completed a certificate program in Botanical Illustration at the Botancial Art Institute of San Diego.

My art focuses on botanical subjects, mainly in watercolor, but I also work in graphite, pen-and-ink, and colored pencil.

Member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI) and the GNSI-Carolinas chapter, the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), the San Diego Botanical Artists Society, the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG), and the JC Raulston Arboretum (JCRaulston Arb).

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