Shirley Slocock has a background in horticulture and international horticultural exhibition consultancy.
She has for many years been a director of Knap Hill Nursery, a family business since 1795 with a worldwide reputation for the production of prize winning rhododendrons and azaleas. It was both her love of watercolours and plants which drew her to the English Gardening School's Botanical Painting Course in 2004.
Having graduated from the English Gardening School with a Credit Diploma, she exhibited at the annual open exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists, of which she is now an Associate Member, in London 2007 (Certificate of Botanical Merit) and again in 2008. At the same exhibition in 2009 she received the Daler Rowney Award.
Two paintings were included in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,Pittsburg, 2007 and one remains in their permanent collection.She was a former member of Amicus Botanicus and is a Fellow of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society. Three of her paintings are in the Palace Archive and one was included in the group Florilegium exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society’s London Show in 2009. She has reviewed botanical painting books for the RHS.
Her paintings are available as originals or as archive quality giclee prints, either on paper or stretched cotton canvas. A donation of 10% is made to Marie Curie Cancer Care on all paintings sold. Commissions are accepted. Contact or telephone 01483 481214 for availability and information.
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