Beverly Allen

Beverly exhibits in Sydney and internationally. Her paintings are held in the Botanic Gardens of Sydney Florilegium, the Shirley Sherwood Collection, The Highgrove Florilegium, the Transylvania Florilegium, RHS Lindley Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Library and the Hunt Institute.

Beverly holds a Gold Medal from the RHS London Botanical Art Show and a Gold and a Silver Medal for Botanical Art from the New York Botanical Garden. In 2016 she was awarded The Dianne Bouchier Award for Excellence in Botanic Art by the American Society of Botanic Artists.

She has taught masterclasses internationally and at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney since 2004, where she co-founded and is president of the Florilegium Society.

In 2023 she received the Shirley Sherwood Award for her contributions to botanical art.

The play between aesthetic intuition and critical description is the dialogue that stimulates her practice. It is important that the subject is realistically rendered and conveys the grace and lyricism inherent in the plant’s natural habit. To convey the natural harmony of colour in a plant which flows through and further emphasises that sense of line and movement is also important. The smallest details, finely painted, are further impetus for this engagement; indulging her curiosity and pleasure and encouraging an involvement with the plant and respect for its value in the natural world.