Shirley Sherwood

Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art

Shirley Angela Sherwood OBE (née Cross; born 1 July 1933) is a British biochemist, botanist, collector of botanical art, author, and philanthropist. She was appointed in the 2012 New Year Honours Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Quotes

• Hungarian minstrels boarded the train at Szwgedin, played vigorously for more than two hours and finished with the Marseillaise, with the chef singing a vociferous solo. The passengers were received by King Charles of Hohenzollern at his new Summer Palace at Pelles. De Blowitz managed to arrange an exclusive interview with him, which he glowingly recounted in The Times.
  After the euphoria of the inaugural trip the Express d'Orient settled into a regular routine.
  • Venice Simplon Orient-Express: The World's Most Celebrated Train (4th, illustrated ed.). Motorbooks International. 1996. p. 28. ISBN 9780760302668.  (188 pages; 1st edition published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1983)

• A next big step forward was the building of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery by my family. It opened in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2008, and stands next to the Marianne North Gallery. Since then there have been over 50 exhibitions, always with some contributions from my collection and Kew's archives. I had been commissioning and acquiring paintings since 1990 and by 2018 had more than than a thousand works from artists working all over the world. Another milestone was that by 2018 we counted over one million visitors to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery. It has become the central focus of botanical art in the world today and the footfall has increased dramatically.
  • The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art. Kew Publishing. 2019. p. 1. ISBN 9781842466933.  (312 pages; text & art displayed in Alyona's Watercolour Creations, YouTube video)

Quotes about Shirley Sherwood

• The spectacular works in this book, all exemplars from Dr Shirley Sherwood's incomparable collection of contemporary botanical art, highlight an artistic practice that infuses accuracy with artistry, and deep love of plants, to create new works that rank with the greatest of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
  • Sir Peter Crane, "Foreword". The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art. Kew Publishing. 2019. ISBN 9781842466933.  (text & art displayed in Alyona’s Watercolour Creations, YouTube)

External links

• Shirley Sherwood Collection. YouTube channel.
• Meet Dr Shirley Sherwin. YouTube (4 December 2018).
• review of Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection by Shirley Sherwood. Publishers Weekly (17 March 2003).