Sheila Mannes-Abbott FLS FSBA
Education: Ealing School of Art (scholarship awarded at the age of 13 for a portfolio of flowers in watercolour)
Career:
- Lettering Artist
- Freelance botanical painter
- Lecturer in botanical painting and design, Brunel University
- Instructor in Botanical Art – short courses for:
- Berkshire College of Agriculture
- Countryside Education Centre, Beaulieu
- Dorset Wildlife Trust – Kingcombe Centre
- Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace
- Reading Borough Council
Medium: Water colour
Group Exhibitions:
- Mall galleries
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Pittsburgh U.S.A.
- Royal Academy London
- Royal Horticultural Society London
- Royal Watercolour Society London
- Shirley Sherwood Gallery – Kew
- Society of Botanical Artists
- Tryon Gallery
- Westminster Gallery
- One-Person Exhibitions:
- Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
- Furneaux Gallery, Wimbledon
- Noel Gregory Gallery, Farnham Common
- Reading Fine Art Gallery
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Collections:
- Berkshire County Council
- Dr Shirley Sherwood
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Pittsburgh U.S.A.
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Archives
- Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
- Numerous private collections, worldwide
Honours/Awards:
- Fellow of The Linnaen Society: 2000
- Founder Member Society of Botanical Artists: 1986
- R.H.S. Grenfell Silver Gilt Medals: 1974, 1978
- R.H.S. Gold Medals: 1997, 1999, 2010
- S.B.A. Medalife Award: 1990
- S.B.A. Joyce Cuming Award for Botanical Excellence: 1998
Work reproduced In:
- Mannes-Abbott, Sheila and Phil Drabble. 1981 “Four Seasons”
- Asser, Michael ed. “The Royal County”- Silver Jubilee H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
- “Contemporary Botanical Masterworks” – A Passion for Plants, Shirley Sherwood
- “Arte y Botanica”, – Selección de Ilustraciones The S.B.A.,Marta Chirino – Margaret Stevens
