Jill Smythies Award Explained

The Jill Smythies Award of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1986 and is awarded annually to a botanical artist.^[1]

The award was established by Bertram Smythies, in honour of his wife, Florence Mary Smythies ("Jill"), whose career as a botanical artist was cut short by an accident to her right hand.^{[2] [3]}

Recipients of the Jill Smythies Award

• Maria Alice de Rezende (2024)
• Sue Wickison (2023)^{[4] [5]}
• Andrew Brown (2022)
• not awarded (2021)
• Alice Tangerini (2020)^[6]
• Deborah Lambkin (2019)^[7]
• Niki Simpson and Juliet Williamson (2018)^[8]
• Karin Douthit and David Williamson (2017)
• Anita Barley (2016)
• Claire Banks (2015)^[9]
• Esmee Somers Winkel (2014)
• not awarded (2013)
• not awarded (2012)
• Margaret Tebbs (2011)
• Susan Sex (2010)
• Halina Bednarek-Ochyra (2009)^[10]
• Patricia Eckel (2008)
• Jan van Os (2007)
• Bobbi Angell (2006)^[11]
• Lesley Elkan (2005)^[12]
• Lucy Theres Smith (2004)
• Maya Koistinen (2003)
• Jenny Brasier (2002)
• Juan Luis Castillo (2001)
• Bo Mossberg and Jean Annette Paton (2000)
• Pandora Sellars (1999)
• Rodella Anne Purves (1998)
• Celia Elizabeth Rosser (1997)
• Bent Jonsen (1996)
• Rosemary Wise (1995)^[13]
• Joy Claire Allison Dalby (1994)
• Caroline Mary Bates (1993)
• John Mark Fothergill (1992)
• Dale Edna Evans (1991)
• Gillian Condy (1990)^[14]
• Christabel King (1989)
• Ann Farrer (1988)

See also

• List of European art awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Jill Smythies Award . 2024-02-17 . BOTANICAL ART & ARTISTS . en.
2. Web site: The Jill Smythies Award. linnean.org.
3. Web site: Art Collections . 2024-02-17 . www.reading.ac.uk . en.
4. Web site: In fine detail . 2024-02-17 . www.magzter.com . en.
5. Web site: 2024-02-17 . Kiwi artist’s illustrations highlight cultural history of plants from Qur’ān . 2024-02-17 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
6. Anon. . 2020 . Alice Tangerini receives the Jill Smythies Award from the Linnean Society . The Plant Press . 23 . 3 . 13.
7. Web site: Deborah Lambkin . 2024-02-17 . Irish Orchid Society . en-GB.
8. Web site: 2018-05-30 . Digital botanical illustration recognized by The Linnean Society of London . 2024-02-17 . ArtPlantae Today . en.
9. Web site: Contemporary Illustrations Collection . 2024-02-17 . www.rbge.org.uk . en.
10. The Jill Smythies Award for 2009 . . June 2009 . 98 . 62 . 4 January 2024.
11. Anon. . 2006 . Bobbi Angell, Botanical Illustrator, receives Jill Smythies Award . Plant Science Bulletin . 52 . 3 . 93-94.
12. Web site: Lesley Elkan . 2024-02-17 . www.cpbr.gov.au . en.
13. Web site: Oxford: Rosemary Wise Botanical Illustration . 2024-02-17 . herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk.
14. 1997 . Contributors . Curtis's Botanical Magazine . 14 . 1 . 60–62 . 1355-4905.