Botanical artists are detail people who fall in love with the plants they paint. The close-up view gives us a great connection to the natural world, one I would like to share with you. I have been delighted by botanical art for decades both as an artist and a teacher.

As the curator & coordinator of the Plant Exhibition held at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, 16-25 September 2016, I now have this website to show the wonderful work of other artists too.

PLANT Exhibition 2016

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KIRSTENBOSCH BIENNALE 2013

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I love passing on information & encouragement to others almost as much as I love painting.

Green Renaissance

 

Poetry Artist series

 

Upcoming classes

I am not currently offering any classes as I am working on submissions for the  Botanical Art Worldwide exhibition to be held in South Africa on May 18, 2018.

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I am delighted to be featured in The Village NEWS 17 April – 23 April  2018

Upcoming date to diarize

Botanical Art WorldwideExhibition: South Africa to be held on May 18, 2018

A worldwide collaboration linking people with plants through contemporary botanical art.

Mandala mundii by Chris Lochner

“The journey of plants”

An exhibition which redraws the diverse techniques of adaptation in the plant world.

"The journey of plants"

About Me

Hi I am Vicki Thomas, a South African botanical artist and owner of the www.botanicalart.co.za website. From the moment I painted my first flower in watercolour in 1980, I knew this would be a lifelong passion. Unusually, I immediately started working with botanists, teaching myself botanical illustration

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