Della Purves

Rodella "Della" Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist.[1]

She was born in 1945 in Paisley, Scotland, and two years later moved to Edinburgh with her family, where she attended St. Margaret's School and later studied agricultural biology and seed classification. She spent a year in New Zealand, working for the government's Department of Industry, before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Botanic Garden.[2]

She left the Botanic Garden in 1976 to concentrate on her career as a botanical artist. Her work was exhibited around the world, in the United States, Ireland, Japan and Germany, with the Queen's Royal Botanist describing her as one of Britain's leading artists.[2]

Purves died in early 2008 from a liver condition.

References

  1. ↑ "Plant artist Rodella was number one in her field". The Scotsman. 18 February 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 Della blossomed into one of the country's best artists, The Scotsman, 8 February 2008.
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