Cheryl is a natural history artist, painting plants and insects in watercolour, on paper and vellum. She particularly enjoys painting Australian native plants and insects, and more recently has been focusing on threatened and endangered species. Cheryl teaches both botanical and insect illustration. She hopes that through her painting and teaching, she will encourage people to look at the natural world with curiosity and fascination and therefore be more inclined to look after it.

Cheryl has won several awards in recent years including Best in Show at the BASA exhibition in 2015 and at the Wildlife and Botanical Artists’ exhibition in 2017. Her works are held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. Cheryl has held two solo exhibitions. Since 2005 she has exhibited in the renowned Botanica exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. In 2014 she was invited to join the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney with her paintings Eucalyptus tereticornis and Acacia longifolia now in the permanent collection. Her painting Taeniophyllum cylindrocentrum is held in the permanent collection of the CSIRO. In 2020 her painting Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp niphophila was accepted into the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.

Career Highlights

2021 National Museum of Australia – demonstration of botanical art, Australia Day program

2020 Painting Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp niphophila accepted into the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

2019 Painting Acacia longifolia accepted into the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

2019 Designed major artwork for the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust

2019 Solo exhibition “Earthly Treasures of our Shire”, The Q Exhibition Space, Queanbeyan

2017 Painted Taeniophyllum cylindrocentrum Orchid for CSIRO collection

2017 Solo exhibition “Botanical Capital” March 2017, Yarralumla Gallery ACT

2014 Invited to join the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, painted Eucalyptus tereticornis