Shevaun Doherty
botanical artist in action
See two time lapse videos of Shevaun painting. One, of a rose hip, painted during the Ellen Hutchins Festival 2017, and one of a bee on lavender, commissioned for the virtual Ellen Hutchins Festival in August 2020.
Read Shevaun’s piece about painting one of Ellen Hutchins’ seaweed specimens in the Herbarium at Trinity College Dublin, in which she describes some of the processes involved in botanical art now and in the early 1800s.
Read Shevaun’s piece about painting one of Ellen Hutchins’ seaweed specimens in the Herbarium at Trinity College Dublin, in which she describes some of the processes involved in botanical art now and in the early 1800s.
See more of Shevaun’s work on her website and her Facebook page.
The Ellen Hutchins Festival commissioned Shevaun to produce paintings for the covers of the guides to lichens, seaweeds and mosses and liverworts. See the online store here.
The Botanical Art Starter Pack,written by Shevaun for the Ellen Hutchins Festival, is a wonderful gift, providing everything you need to start your botanical art journey – just add water!
See here.