Botanical Artist – exhibition and gifts

[Maggi Young]

Heather Raeburn is a botanical artist living and working in Edinburgh. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, she has worked successfully in illustrative design and portraiture.

   

In 2006 Heather decided to fulfill a long held ambition and turned her talents to botanical painting, studying at the Royal Botanical Gardens where she quickly merged her natural abilities for observation and fine detail to produce beautiful botanical paintings.
Heather has been invited to exhibit at both the Royal Horticultural Society in London, and Botanical Images Scotia at Gardening Scotland.  Heather has been commissioned  by Mark Hughes to make ink drawing of a newly  described Begonia species, Begonia scottii.

Heather is showing a range of around 17 watercolours, plus works in progress, in her  ‘Through the Looking Glass’ exhibition, in the John Hope Gateway at  the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - the  exhibition continues until February 24th 2013.



Included are watercolours of  Iris acutiloba subsp. lineolata which was
Collected in Iran  by John Mitchell of RBGE.

Forumists have been impressed by the products produced using Heather’s designs and these would make delightful gifts ( at any season!)
Botanical prints, notelets/cards,  mugs and bookmarks are available as are useful tea-towels with charming flower designs - sure to cheer any dishwashing session.
     
      Trollius chinensis
     
      Fuchsia 'Claudia'
     
      Crocus

Crocus sp.        Product Code: HR-BP001       Price: £25.00 (+ postage) 
A beautiful signed Crocus print, double mounted in antique white.
Available in the following sizes: 12" x 10" - £25 + postage      16" x 14" - £35 + postage

Teatowels  £5  plus p&p £1  each  50p for additional items.
Designs are Eryngium (Thistle), Meconopsis,  Sweetpeas  and Fern.

Tea towel designs :
 

   




You can contact Heather to make an order  via her  mobile phone number   07525841565
She also has a website:      www.heatherraeburn.co.uk  and you can see stockists of her products  via:  http://www.heatherraeburn.co.uk/stockists.html


Apologies for the amount of time it has taken to load all the pictures : my internet connection is very slow today - must be the level of Christmas shopping traffic!     MY.

[ranunculus]

Stunning work ... hearty congratulations to Heather for these beautiful examples (though the words 'tea towel' still fill me with dread ... my main/only task in the Booker household)!