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Illustrious career describing plants - international effort Otago Daily Times -January 12, 2010A botanical illustrator who was brought up in West Africa depicts a South American plant being grown in the Dunedin Botanic Garden winter garden glasshouse in an illustration and successfully submits it to this year's Margaret Flockton Exhibition in Sydney.
Drawn From Life Dominion Post - June 23, 2007 - (556kb pdf file)
Sue Wickison’s flower pictures go far beyond prettiness. In the past few months they have earned a silver medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in Britain and been stored for acquisition by Kew Gardens in London. Click HERE to read more.
Solo exhibition, the Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, England
Sue was invited to showcase her work on New Zealand Native plants to coincide with the opening of the New Zealand Garden at the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, England in April 2007.
New
Zealand
Plant Conservation Network - June 2007Sue was commissioned to paint an illustration from herbarium specimens of an extinct New Zealand mistletoe, Trilepidea adamsii, for the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. This painting is being used to heighten the awareness of native flora and is to be used for the Individual Conservation Achievement Award which is given each year to recognise excellence in the field of plant conservation. View article and images.
Solo exhibition - New Zealand House, London (2.11 MB pdf file)
See Sue's latest work, which showed at New Zealand House in October/November 2006. Most of the new paintings show endangered New Zealand native plants and Sue hopes that her new focus will help to raise the awareness of their plight in the wild. Note: if you are interested in purchasing an original work from this exhibition, please contact Sue directly at sue@suewickisondesign.com
"Nurturing
Natives" (506k
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An article published during a
trip to Palmerston North to present a talk and an Orchid slide show to
the Manawatu Orchid Society. Written by Lisa Durrant.
Manawatu Standard (7th July 2006.) (www.manawatustandard.co.nz)
Diana Dekker admires Sue Wickison's true-to-life botanical art.
NZ House & Garden. November 2005 (www.nzhouse-garden.co.nz)