Sharon Bradley Ed.dip.BI 

 

  

Fritillaria hermonis amana 

"Welcome to the home page for

 Sharon Bradley 

  Botanical Artist, Illustrator and Tutor."

Since leaving High School I have always had an interest in Art of all forms and mediums and have attended numerous courses, weekend breaks and painting holidays to study whatever I was interested in at the time. For several years I attended evening classes in Art, studied at Summer Schools at Leith College of Art in Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art.

After realising that most of my work was becoming involved with my other passion of gardening I eventually joined the many Botanical Art courses available at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. This culminated in graduating with a Diploma in Botanical Illustration with Distinction, one of the first group of students to complete this new Diploma. I also received the 'Eve Bennet' award for achievement during the course.

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 Graduation ceremony with Chris Beardshaw

I now tutor Botanical Illustration at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, run private classes in my home town of Biggar in South Lanarkshire and tutor Botanical Art Painting Holidays.

I have completed two commissions for Curtis Botanical Magazine, one for the new species Meconopsis wilsonii subs. orientalis and one of Primula melanantha which featured at Kevock Garden display at Chelsea in 2011. 

My passion for gardening provides many sources of inspiration and material to work from and for the final year of my Diploma I chose to do a series of paintings of Monocarpic Meconopsis as I grow these from seed at home. I also have many varieties of the Big Blue Poppies and in March 2011 along with my artist friend Janet Watson we were invited to do a presentation to the AGM of The Meconopsis Organisation about the illustrating of these beautiful plants.

 

I hope you enjoy looking at the site and I welcome any comments you may leave in my guestbook page.