Botany for the Artist

An illustrated guide to understanding botany to a level which will benefit the reader's botanical illustrations, with Sarah Simblet's artwork revealing the intricacies of how plants breathe, feed and produce fruit, better informing the reader's artistic reproduction of these processes.

Dr Sarah Simblet is a fine artist, writer, and broadcaster, whose work explores the relationship between science, history, and art. The author of Anatomy for the Artist and Drawing for the Artist, and co-author of The New Sylva, Sarah is dedicated to encouraging visual intelligence in others through her drawings, teaching, and broadcasting worldwide. She is Director of Studies for Fine Art at Christ Church, Oxford, and Tutor in Anatomy at the Ruskin School of Art. She also teaches short courses in anatomy, botany, and drawing for both the Ruskin and the Royal Academy of Art, London.