Scottish Borders based botanical artist, Rachel Sutherland, trained as a Landscape Architect at Edinburgh University and is a Director of the Scottish Society of Botanical Artists. Careful observation of both plants and the landscape are a central part of her practice which was founded in the early years in Sri Lanka where she was awarded the Geoffrey Bawa Scholarship to do a conservation plan of Brief Garden. It was as artist in residence of this garden that Rachel learned to portray plants as a method of identification.
Her botanical work is in watercolour. Her landscapes are oil on canvas of the Lammermuirs, one of which received the Torness Cup for best painting in the Berwickshire Art Society Show in Duns Castle 2021.
Rachel is currently a part-time lecturer in Landscape Design and Ecology at Borders College, a creative from her garden studio and a regular visitor to Sri Lanka and India where she paints in tropical warmth.
Membership of the Society is open to all registered architects, past and present students of architecture and those who have worked in architecture, planning and landscape in Scotland. Annual membership is currently only £20.
If you are interested in joining SSAA please contact the President:
Ian Stuart Campbell
07549 525513
ianstuartcampbell2@gmail.com
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