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Celebrating 20 Years of Botanical Art

In this solo exhibition, Kumie Kim’s botanical art journey is displayed through her 54 botanical paintings and memorialized in the exhibition catalogue with 65 of her botanical artworks.

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Neutral Grays and Blacks in Your Paintbox

In February 2024, RTBA member Kumie Kim did a demonstration of Neutrals and Grays. Recently, while flipping through my sketchbook, the handout from demonstration fell out of the pages. An hour was spent recreating her formulas of making neutral colors.

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Forest Awakened

Carol Jean Rogalski extensively researched and documented the art of the tree in Western botanical art and illustration.

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Finding Common Ground in Botanical Art Across the Continent

On June 5, 2025, the Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Circle, met via Zoom with Central Texas Botanical Artists to share and discuss their recent artwork and ongoing projects.

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Mother Earth Market

Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods hosted their forth annual Mother Earth Market with many festivities.

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The Zen of Trees

On April 26, 2025, members of the Reed-Turner Botanical Artists gathered together at for the workshop: Depicting Trees with Kimberly Mullarkey. A presentation about trees preceded an outing into the woodland to observe and sketch.

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Your Bird Friendly Garden

Education is the most powerful tool of conservation. Know the science of our interconnected environment. Understand the necessity for a biodiverse ecosystems. Recognize the need for sustainability. Solutions can start in our own backyards.

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Beverly’s Country Garden Watercolors

Beverly Behrens, a member of ASBA and Reed-Turner Botanical Artist, and it turns out, so much more. Known for her beautiful botanical art work, a visit to her website and a conversation reveal the depth and breadth of her artistic endeavors.

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The Universe is a Leaf

Have you ever stopped to look at a leaf? Ramiro F. Prudencio has and says that, with his surgeon's eye, he has discovered true revelations.

Fifty portraits painted with colored pencils are part of the book One Leaf, One Life published in Bolivia by Plural Editores.

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Phenology

Phenology is the art of observing and recording the rhythms of the natural seasons.

A phenology wheel is a visual representation of seasonal changes in nature.

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Making Plant Connections

While studying a rare bird in Chicago, the Piping Plover, the connection between this bird and the plant American Sea Rocket became apparent. This connection lead to more research on the American Sea Rocket and the connections this plant makes with its siblings.

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A Focus on Native Perennials

Art has always been a part of Christina Lovering’s life, but she began pursuing botanical art in 2012 after completing a master’s degree related to her teaching career.

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ADA Accessibility Driehaus Museum

Driehaus Museum is accessible with elevators and manually operated wheel chairs. However, getting to the museum may be difficult driving.

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ADA Accessibility Reed-Turner Woodland

Reed-Turner Woodland has limited accessibility to the Nature Center and the woodland area.

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ADA Accessibility to Botanical Sites

Access and accommodations are necessary when a person is in a wheel chair, needs an on-site wheel chair or ECV (Electronic Convenience Vehicle), uses a walking aid, needs benches to take periodic breaks, needs water or a restroom. Having knowledge before going into a building or nature area is crucial for enjoyment and use of a botanical site.

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Beauty in a New Terroir

A book synopsis by Sylvia Vanhoozer, The Art of Living in Seasons, A Year of Reflections for Everyday Saints .

“A transplant originally from Provence, France, my search for roots eventually led me to the Chicago Botanic Gardens, and a 2016 certificate in botanical art.”

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A Walk in the Woods

Members of the Reed-Turner Botanical Artists gathered together at 8:00 a.m. before the monthly meeting to take a walk through the Reed-Turner Woodland Preserve with Matt Tobin, with the Lake County Audubon Society.

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Field Trip to the Chicago Field Museum

March 2, 2024, Reed-Turner members outing to the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History guided by Artist-in-Residence Peggy McNamara. During the tour, Peggy gives her view of the Field Museum through expressive watercolor painting.

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A Conversation

Article in ASBA The Botanical Artist, interview of Louise Daley by Laura Bethman, March 2022. Initially relying solely on instruction from books, Louise began online courses in 2018 with Dianne Sutherland, and later with Jackie Isard, Shevaun Doherty, and Heeyoung Kim.

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Nature Journaling Bunker Hill Preserve

On June 7, 2023, Reed-Turner Botanical Artists member, Maureen Murphy, led a group of members in an outdoor sketching and nature journaling workshop.