Celia Rosser
Celia Rosser is recognised as one of the world’s best botanical artists, and for having painted all the species of one genus, Banksia.
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Joyce Allan
Joyce Allan was Australia’s first female conchologist.
Cecily Fearnley
Cecily Lydia Fearnley was awarded the Queensland Natural History Award in 2001 and has published several popular books on the flora and fauna of Noosa and surrounding areas.
Regina Olson Hughes
American botanical illustrator
Tarpé Mills
Creator of the 1940s comic superhero Miss Fury
Graceanna Lewis
American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.
Yvonne Jammet
20th century Irish landscape painter and sculptor
Annie Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Alison Marjorie Ashby
Alison Ashby painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.
Dorothy Blackham
20th century Irish artist and teacher