Rhona Brown Explained

Rhona Brown (September 23, 1922 - March 14, 2014), was a South African botanical artist.

Brown was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A.(Hons.) in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate.^[1] She worked at the Botanical Research Institute in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965–69 and taught sporadically for eight years. She completed some 100 plates for the Flowering Plants of Africa and black-and-white illustrations for Bothalia and Flora of Southern Africa. She provided about half of all illustrations for Palmer & Pitman's Trees of Southern Africa and all the illustrations for Eve Palmer's Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa.

She married Comdt. Horatio Theophilus Collett on 2 March 1946.

Publications

• 1972 Trees of Southern Africa by Eve Palmer & Norah Pitman, illustrated By Rhona Collett (3 vols.)
• 1977 A Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa by Eve Palmer, illustrated By Rhona Collett (William Collins & Sons Ltd.)
• Calligraphy Teachers Manual - Rhona Collett et al.

Notes and References

1. Book: Glen, H. F.. Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa : :An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape Flora, Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa form the days of the East India Company until the modern times.. 2010. 978-1-919976-54-9. 26. South African National Biodiversity Institute .