Botanical Sketches and Other Stories

“Change always comes bearing gifts.” Price Pritchett A change is as good as a rest they say. Recently I needed to take a short b...

African Monarch butterfly   ©   Shevaun Doherty "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned" Peter Marsh...

Laburnum anagyroides on natural calf vellum  © Shevaun Doherty 2015 “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” A...

 Red dates  Phoenix dactylifera, GOLD MEDAL   © Shevaun Doherty 2013 The difference between TRY and TRIUMPH is a little UMPH. ...

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” Mark Nepo     I have always loved daisies,  Bellis perennis ...

“Be Patient. Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” Rumi Patience is an attribute that every botanical artist n...

Buff tailed bumblebee  Bombus terrestris,  on kelmscott vellum “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ...