Brand New!! Rhs Exhibitions: Guidance In Addition To Regulations For Submitting Botanical Fine Art & Botanical Photography

The Royal Horticultural Society lately gave its website a massive overhaul. URLs withdraw maintain changed too only about things went missing for a piece - including the Guidelines too Regulations for submitting Botanical Art to an RHS Exhibition!

I wrote too asked what had happened and, equally a result, the data has immediately been loaded. It's also been relocated out of the Shows surface area too into a department on Education too Learning too a subsection on Libraries. This is inwards component because the Picture Committee is no to a greater extent than too the business office previously carried out past times that Committee is immediately undertaken past times the Picture Panel nether the auspices of the Lindley Library too Arts Committee. So the website follows the organisational shape of the RHS.

For those of you lot who desire to locomote inwards your botanical fine art or botanical photography into the RHS Exhibitions I've detailed below where you lot tin immediately expose the information. You withdraw maintain until 25th June to submit locomote for assessment to the side past times side coming together of the Picture Panel.

RHS Exhibition of Botanical Art

You withdraw maintain until 25th June to apply to last assessed to submit locomote for a hereafter exhibition of
Botanical Art inwards the RHS Lindley Hall
This is one-half of the 2014 Exhibition too the winner of the Best Exhibit inwards Show is inwards the foreground
(see RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners)

A really high touchstone of locomote is required inwards the exhibition of botanical illustration.

Emphasis is placed primarily on botanical accuracy alongside aesthetic appeal.

Individual artists or grouping exhibitors are allocated infinite at each show.

Exhibits must comprise a minimum of vi pieces of art, preferably presented on a theme.

Interestingly the exhibition is referred to equally existence nigh botanical fine art whereas the introduction to the plain of written report references it equally existence nigh botanical illustration. As botanical artists good know in that location is only about considerable orbit for struggle nigh the differences betwixt botanical fine art too botanical illustration! It's sure as shooting the instance that Gold Medals awarded of belatedly withdraw maintain had a really potent botanical theme.

This is the link for submitting botanical artwork to the Exhibition of Botanical Art.

Submissions are moderated. You cannot submit locomote for exhibition until your skills inwards botanical fine art withdraw maintain been assessed.

To submit your locomote for assessment, you lot demand to transportation 4 master copy examples of mounted botanical illustration (unframed) should last sent to the Secretary of the Picture Panel, RHS Lindley Library, eighty Vincent Square, London SW1 2PE .
Artists from overseas should transportation actual-size unmounted prints of their work.
The deadline for submissions for consideration at this coming together is Wed 25 June 2014.
The engagement of the side past times side pick coming together is nine July, 2014.

After you lot withdraw maintain been accepted equally eligible for exhibition, you lot therefore withdraw maintain to apply for a space.

I cannot recommend equally good strongly that you lot do NOT apply until such fourth dimension equally you lot withdraw maintain got your themed projection underway too withdraw maintain made sure you lot withdraw maintain sufficient fourth dimension to consummate all vi works prior to the engagement of the exhibition. You e'er desire to brand a practiced starting fourth dimension impression - too you lot cannot afford to withdraw maintain whatever weak work. Also last really careful nigh accepting an offering of infinite because individual else has pulled out. Do NOT under-estimate the amount of fourth dimension required to pose on a practiced presentation. Gold Medallists e'er expect similar Gold Medallists - fifty-fifty from a distance!

Exhibitors who bring infinite but neglect to phase an exhibit without giving the Society at to the lowest degree 3 weeks' notice volition non last considered inwards the next ii seasons, unless practiced reasons are given.

Click the link inwards the headings below to access the pdf files which you lot tin download.

Guidelines for botanical artwork

People withdraw maintain lost out on Gold Medals for failing to detect exactly aspects which are regarded equally positive features of the artwork.

The next may last regarded equally positive features inwards assessing an exhibit:

Good draughtsmanship and, when applicable, practiced painterly skills

That the depiction of plants or found fabric is botanically accurate

That each moving icon is good composed

That the infinite allocated inwards which to hang the pictures is well-filled without existence overcrowded

That the exhibit has an overall unity

That whatever written data is accurate too good presented too includes the Latin name

That whatever frames, mounts or other accessories used are appropriate inwards style, scale too condition

That the pattern of the display enhances the appearance of the drawings or paintings

Regulations for botanical artwork

These are much to a greater extent than detailed equally to the processes for application for infinite at an exhibition too how exhibits demand to last presented - too what else you lot tin withdraw maintain on your stand.

Consideration volition alone last given to works that are primarily of botanical interest, too paintings too drawings should last at to the lowest degree life-size.

Particular credit is given for botanical accuracy, exact color reproduction too attending to detail. Higher awards tend to last given to exhibits illustrating a special topic or found family. Pictures are judged equally a consummate exhibit therefore that if i or ii works are of a lower touchstone than the others alongside which they are shown, the degree of observe volition last affected.

Gold Medals are alone awarded to exhibits of outstanding too consistent excellence.

Interestingly the RHS comments nigh its ain collection of Botanical Art that

Over the past times 400 years approaches to the depiction of plants has altered according to latest scientific understanding, the buyers’ asking too the intended audience. These variations inwards trend are represented inwards our collection.

See also my weblog posts:

Ten Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art 2013
More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art xiv April 2014
15 Top Tips for presenting locomote at an RHS Botanical Art ... 13 April 2014
RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners

RHS Exhibition of Botanical Photography

Gold Medal (2013) for a railroad train of photographs of Lichens past times January Cassidy Photograph

The procedure is really similar for the Exhibition of Botanical Photography which takes house annually at the October London Flower Show.

See my weblog post service RHS Gold Medal winning Botanical Photography for an illustration of only about other Gold Medal winning exhibit.

Exhibits must comprise a minimum of viii photographs presented on an horticultural theme. These tin last found portraits or scenes of garden

Clay Perry alongside his Gold Medal Winning exhibit inwards 2012

This is the link for submitting botanical artwork to the Exhibition of Botanical Photography.

Those wanting to exhibit must starting fourth dimension submit to an assessment of their locomote too must also apply to exhibit. The starting fourth dimension measuring is to contact the Secretary Lucy Waitt at the RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London SW1 2PE. Assessments too judging are made past times the Photographic Advisory Panel.

There are detailed Guidelines too Regulations for Botanical Photography. For farther data see

All exhibitors must furnish written information, which volition also last judged for its accuracy too presentation. All found names should last inwards Latin.

Whether or non you lot acquire the found mention right - too write the Latin correctly - truly matters a lot!

More Resources for Botanical Artists too Art Lovers

You tin expose to a greater extent than resources nigh Botanical Art inwards my resources for artists websites:

~~Botanical Art - Resources for Artists~~ UPDATE Botanical Art too Artists - This site shares data nigh botanical fine art - societies, collections, books too other resources which back upward the evolution of botanical art. It also links to leading botanical artists inwards the past times too present..
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Link UPDATE The Best Botanical Art Instruction Books Learn nigh the best botanical fine art instruction books.
Link UPDATE The Best Books nigh Botanical Artists & Illustrators
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Link UPDATE A History of Botanical Art