Exhibitions at Kew Gardens
Plants in Peril exhibition
Mon 26 December 2011 - Sun 18 March 2012This exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art presents illustrations of endangered plants from over thirty countries around the world.
Joseph Hooker - naturalist, traveller and more
Mon 26 December 2011 - Mon 09 April 2012This exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art displays paintings, letters, photographs and sketchbooks by Sir Joseph Hooker, from the collections at Kew.
Exhibition - The Pressed Plant, Rachel Pedder-Smith’s Herbarium Specimen Painting
Sat 31 March - Mon 07 May 2012This new exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art will display the work of artist Rachel Pedder-Smith, focusing on a painting over five metres long, completed using Herbarium specimens from Kew.
Exhibition - Portraits of leaves and fungi, paintings from the Shirley Sherwood Collection
Sat 05 May 2012 - Tue 30 April 2013Explore these two linked exhibitions featuring paintings of leaves from a variety of artists including Margaret Mee, Paul Jones and Brigid Edwards; together with paintings of fungi, predominantly painted by Alexander Viazmensky.
