Painter, Writer & Course Tutor – teaching Botany for Botanical Artists....

Liz Leech is a botanist, botanical artist and experienced tutor and teacher of botany, ecology and biology. She is a Fellow of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society (HCPFS) and their Honorary Botanist (botanical advisor). She is also an active member of the Institute for Analytical Plant Illustration (IAPI) and a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA).

Her paintings are inspired by her love of plants and by the 19th Century botanical paintings which are based on detailed and accurate observations of a plant and its distinctive structures. Her watercolour pictures are bold and realistic and aim to draw the eye towards the diagnostic features whilst painting the plant as sympathetically and accurately as possible. She seldom paints series of closely related plants as she enjoys investigating the individual features of each plant prior to painting and the challenge of "capturing the plant" in a picture.

Her pictures are in the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Archive or privately owned.

A selection of her photos of plants can be viewed. click here