Art Shows

Wendy Hollender
Wendy Hollender has been a botanical artist for over 25 years after transitioning from a career as a textile designer. Her love of botanical art is something she has a passion for, which translates into her long career as an instructor and founder of Draw Botanical. Having written 4 books on botanical drawing techniques, Wendy is one of the leading artists working in a combination of colored pencil and watercolor. For the past 16 years, she has lived and created an extensive garden to use in her work and as a teaching venue for Botanical Art at her small farm in Accord, NY. She has exhibited extensively around the world and has done years of botanical illustration used by many in the world of plants.

Doug Milne
After many years as an architectural draftsman and interior designer, Doug became passionate about plants and garden design. He rekindled his love for drawing while taking botanical illustration and horticulture classes at the New York Botanical Garden. Working with Wendy Hollender opened up a world of opportunities and led Doug to this cherished group of friends. After living in the Hudson Valley for the majority of his life Doug recently moved to Cazenovia, New York.

Veronica Fannin
Veronica (Vern) Fannin is an artist from Kerhonkson, NY, whose practice includes illustration, painting, design, and botanical drawing. Her botanical work blends scientific accuracy with a poetic sensibility, often featuring delicate native plants rendered with attention to pattern, movement, and lyrical composition. Informed by her background in design and lettering, her drawings are composed with clarity and grace—quiet studies in the rhythm and elegance of natural forms.

Sheila Yoshpe
Sheila Yoshpe lives in New Paltz, NY. After decades of working in clay, paint, and fabric, she has spent recent years immersed in color pencil and watercolor pencil. Sheila’s artwork reflects her joyful engagement with the natural world, as she finds and identifies plants, studies them up close, and carefully draws them. Her recent works are both whimsical and grounded, as she draws, cuts out her work, and collages it to create unexpected, storied relationships among plants.

Susan Shaw
On retiring from the practice of law, Shaw took a course with Wendy Hollender and discovered a love of botanical drawing, eventually forming a deep friendship with the artists here. She loves drawing simple fruits, and the meditative act of forming a circle into a three-dimensional sphere. She loves the intricacies of flowers, the overlap of petals, the beauty of color, the mystery of stamens and sepals, and the complicated, mathematical patterns of veins in leaves.