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Banks, Claire Eleanor

b. 1967

A Painting Graduate from Edinburgh College of Art and the recipient of an RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship in 1990. "I have worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) as a botanical illustrator and artist since 2009. A painting graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, I have kept a continual personal practice ongoing while a developing interest in plants and their medicinal properties led to a BSc in Herbal Medicine at Napier University Edinburgh. Gradually the connections between the two disciplines have developed into my current work as an Illustrator at RBGE. The majority of work I make for RBGE accompanies scientific papers published in numerous international botanical journals such as the Edinburgh Journal of Botany, Taxon, Wildeknowia and the Thai Forest Bulletin, and also major publications such as the Flora of Nepal and The Flora of Thailand. I also teach scientific illustration, both online and attendance modes for the Diploma in Botanical Illustration delivered by RBGE, and have also taught illustration workshops for taxonomy students in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 2015, I was awarded the internationally-recognised Jill Smythies Medal by the Linnean Society of London for my scientific illustration work."



An image from the RSA collection.