GAEL SELLWOOD

Gael has been working as a botanical artist for the last fifteen years. After a busy career ranging from working for the NHS to designing wedding dresses and running a successful consultancy business, Gael undertook courses at Birmingham University in Botanical Illustration and Cambridge University in Combined Fine Arts.  As part of her studies and professional development she has written and published a number of articles, the most important of which was 'Painting Nature on Vellum' in 2004. 

In 2006 she gained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Business and Digital Skills for Artists and Makers from the University of Hertfordshire and now devotes all her attention to botanical and natural history painting, whether teaching or painting for exhibition and to commission from her own studio in North Hertfordshire.

Gael's work depicts found natural objects, affected, renounced and used by nature. These are mostly painted in watercolour (often on vellum) and take the viewer to the hedgerow or wayside, recreating a season, a feeling, a scent or an experience for posterity. Gael relishes detail and is passionate about recreating this for the viewer to enjoy and treasure

Having been accepted in 2007, Gael was delighted to exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society in London in 2008 and 2009. She is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists and shows work each April at their London Show. Gael also runs classes and workshops from her studio in Hertfordshire and teaches at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.