Introduction to Botanical Art with Catherine Watters

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  Catherine Watters
  

  Catherine Watters

  Born in Paris, Catherine Watters is a botanical artist who paints in watercolor on paper and calfskin vellum. She shows her work in several exhibitions each year, most recently at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; National Tropical Botanical Garde, Kauai; Wave Hill Public Gardens, Bronx, NY; Parc de Bagatelle, Paris, France; The Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Florilegium, Australia; Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy;
  Shirley Sherwood Gallery, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; The Horticultural Society of New York; The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA; Filoli, Woodside, CA; and the New York Botanical Garden.

  Her paintings are included in many private collections including The Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection and several permanent collections – The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; The Museum of Natural History in Paris. Catherine’s work is featured in several florilegia including The Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Florilegium, Australia; The National Tropical Botanical Garden Florilegium, Kauai; The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium; The Filoli Florilegium. She co-founded and has paintings in The Alcatraz Florilegium; The UC Berkeley Botanical Garden Florilegium, and the Château de Brécy Florilegium in France.
  Her illustrations appear in several books, catalogs, and magazines, listed on the Publications page.

  Catherine has been teaching botanical art since 1999. She co-developed the Botanical Art Certificate Program at Filoli and is a frequent guest instructor and lecturer around the U.S. and in France. Catherine has juried and curated many exhibitions. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, and The Red List Project. She is also a member of The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, and the Association des Passionnés d’Illustrations Botaniques in France. Catherine received her B.A. from the University of California at Davis where she studied French and Art. In 2015, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame, DHS Blue & White Foundation, Davis, CA.