Ruth Jackson

Ruth became interested in botanical art through her love of our natural environment and has always been attracted to the natural beauty of Australia ’s native wildflowers. Keen to conserve what is left of the last remaining – and rapidly dwindling – bushland in the Maroondah region, Ruth has recognised the pressing need for a reliable identification resource for the assistance of concerned conservationists from both within and beyond the region. To this end she is currently committed to a long term illustration project with the aim of publishing, in book form, a comprehensive guide to the region’s indigenous flora. To complicate matters Ruth is vision impaired, requiring a range of specialised vision aids and working with a very short depth of focus and narrow visual field. She is essentially self-taught both as artist and as amateur botanist. Her illustrations have been represented in regional art exhibitions in Melbourne’s outer east including the R & M McGivern Art Prize exhibition, conducted as part of the Maroondah Winter Arts Fest in 2003, at which she received the Commendable Watercolour award, and at the Botanical Art at Karwarra exhibition at Kalorama in 2005. Her work was also exhibited in 2003 at the Bryophyte Illustration Exhibition, Zen Salad. One of her paintings was purchased for the State Botanical Collection in 2004.

	Catalogue 77			Catalogue 78
	Pterostylis × ingens, Caladenia congesta, Gastrodia sesamoides, Eriochilus cucullatus, Corybas diemenicus, Pterostylis pendunculata, Calochilus robertsonii, Glossodia major, Thelymitra carnea, Pterostylis nutans. 780mm x 575mm Watercolour $1,600
				Diuris orientis, Acianthus caudatus, Chiloglottis valida, Thelymitra peniculata, Pterostylis melagramma, Diuris behrii, Dipodium roseum, Diuris pardina, Caladenia transitoria, Caladenic sp. Aff. venusta 780mm x 575mm Watercolour $1,600

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