Elaine Searle

Elaine is a botanical artist and instructor whose mantra is "have paintbrush, will travel…"

Recent adventures have included teaching trips to France, Holland, Portugal, Italy and the USA.

Starting out as a packaging and print designer, an introduction to Botanical painting by Anne Marie Evans led to full time study on diploma course of The English Gardening School... a life-changing experience.

Elaine’s watercolours, executed on paper or calfskin vellum are included in The Highgrove Florilegium, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and numerous private collections.

In 2008, she received a Silver Gilt Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for an exhibit of paintings of succulents.

Specimens do not have to be exotic or rare to interest. Elaine finds the commonplace equally fascinating, seeking beauty in whatever she chooses to paint.

She is happy to discuss a commission...

or should you be interested in taking a class or joining a botanical painting holiday in Umbria, full details can be found at www.paintbotanical.com