Christine Battle

Christine came to botanical illustration by way of journalism, dressage, a love of trees - and a 50th birthday present…

It was thanks to that gift of a two-day botanical drawing course back in 2006 that Christine discovered she could paint plants. This led her to enrol for a Diploma course in botanical illustration at the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, graduating with Credit in February 2009.

Christine is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and was invited to exhibit a painting at their annual show in New York this Autumn – one of only 38 artists worldwide so honoured. Her painting of a Eucalyptus was singled out for an Honourable Mention and the painting was also used on the front of the invitation.

Christine was awarded a Gold Medal at the RHS Malvern Spring Show in May 2010 for her series of paintings ‘New Trees’, inspired by the book of the same name by Dr. John Grimshaw. In addition she contributes paintings to the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium and has been invited to illustrate plates for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.

She is also a member of the Bath Society of Botanical Artists and has exhibited with them annually at their Summer Exhibition since 2008.

Contact Christine online at or via her website: www.christinebattle.co.uk