Christabel King
Invited Speaker
Christabel King studied Scientific Illustration at Middlesex Polytechnic where
she learned the technique of line drawing and detailed watercolour painting
necessary for botanical illustration. Since 1975 she has made illustrations for
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. She gave
courses at Capel Manor Horticultural College from 1986 to 2012 and has also
trained many people both in the UK and abroad, in Brazil, Turkey, USA,
Tanzania and Japan, in the skill of depicting plants accurately for scientific
botanical illustrations.
