David Nash at Kew - browse works in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

Find out more about the sculptures, drawings and paintings on display in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, as part of the David Nash at Kew: A Natural Gallery exhibition.

Tickets for the Gardens and the exhibition - adults £14.50, concessions £12.50, children under 17 yrs FREE

Ash Dome

Ash Dome is one of the most celebrated of Nash's living works. Since planting this work, Nash has produced a series of charcoal and pastel drawings inspired by this piece. You can see these works in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.

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Blue Ring

Blue Ring began as a living work – a circle of bluebells on the hillside at Cae'n-y-Coed in Wales. In his exhibition at Kew Gardens, Nash represents this work through a series of drawings and a ring of bluebell seeds.

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Cross Hatch Cross

Inspired by artistic research into Kew’s Economic Botany Collection, Nash has branded some of his new work, such as Cross Hatch Cross, with simple motifs.

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Family Tree

The development of Nash’s artistic ideas are shown in this epic series of drawings, called Family Tree.

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Kew Tree Drawings

During his residency at Kew, Nash has made a series of drawings of some of the Garden’s most distinguished trees.

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Ladle and Spoon

Ladle and Spoon is one of Nash's works made in the Wood Quarry that was located at Kew Gardens.

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Oval Rings

Nash has found the oval forms of plant cells aesthetically beautiful, especially as a colour experience. He has responded to them in sculpture and drawings.

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Sculptures inspired by fruits

Nash was inspired to make new sculptures in the Wood Quarry after visiting Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank in West Sussex. Here he discovered the many different shapes, sizes and colours of fruits and seeds.

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