Sheila Mannes-Abbott FLS FSBA
Education:
Ealing School of Art (scholarship awarded at the age of 13 for a portfolio of flowers in watercolour)
Career:
Colour advisory department Imperial Chemical Industries
Lettering Artist
Freelance botanical painter
Lecturer in botanical painting and design, Brunel University
Instructor in Botanical Art – short courses for:
Berkshire College of Agriculture
Countryside Education Centre, Beaulieu
Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace
Private courses in the artist’s studio
Reading Borough Council
Media:
Water colour, pencil
Group Exhibitions:
Royal Academy London
Royal Horticultural Society London
Royal Watercolour Society London
Society of Botanical Artists
Westminster Gallery
Tryon Gallery
Mall galleries
One-Person Exhibitions:
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
Furneaux Gallery, Wimbledon
Noel Gregory Gallery, Farnham Common
Reading Fine Art Gallery
Collections:
Berkshire County Council
Dr Shirley Sherwood
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Pittsburgh U.S.A.
Numerous private collections , worldwide
Honours/Awards:
Fellow of The Linnaen Society: 2000
Founder Member Society of Botanical Artists: 1986
R.H.S. Grenfell Silver Gilt Medals: 1974, 1978
R.H.S. Gold Medals: 1997, 1999
S.B.A. Medalife Award: 1990
S.B.A. Joyce Cuming Award for Botanical Excellence: 1998
Commissions:
(For, bone china collector’s plates, jigsaw puzzles, melamine-ware, porcelain, stationery, textiles)
Artlines; Athena International; BBC Enterprises; Blackstaff Textiles; Book Club Associates; Boots Company Plc; Coalport; Coates Leisure Group; Franklin Mint; Friends of the Earth; National Trust; Royal National Lifeboat Institution; Royal Kendal; Royal Society for Nature Conservation; Waddingtons; Worldwide Fund for Nature
Work reproduced In:
Mannes-Abbott, Sheila and Phil Drabble. 1981 “Four Seasons”?
Asser, Michael ed. “The Royal County”- Silver Jubilee H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
"Contemporary Botanical Masterworks", - A Passion for Plants, Shirley Sherwood
"Arte y Botanica", - Selección de Ilustraciones The S.B.A., Marta Chirino - Margaret Stevens
A Book of Irises to be published in 2007 by The Garden Art Press |
