Exhibitions
2025-The Florilegium are affiliating with The Society of Botanical Artists in a big anniversary year for both groups. The SBA have generously given us the opportunity to showcase nine of our artworks to the Plantae 2025 audience at The Mall Galleries.
2025-"Flowers in Contemporary Art & Culture". Flowers have, throughout history, inspired artists, writers and creatives. This show seeks to reveal the myriad ways that flowers continue to be depicted by artists and their omnipresence within our contemporary culture. Over 500 unique artworks and objects are on display throughout the exhibition, divided into nine sections – from Roots, In Bloom, Flowers and Fashion, Science: Life & Death, to New Shoots – each exploring different creative themes and media. 12 images produced by the Florilegium have been included. Artists:Lydia Holden, Judith Hillelson, Helen Allen, Judi Stone, Penny Stenning, Christine Battle,Sue Williams, Joanna Craig-McFeely, Jill Mayhew, Alister Matthew, Julia Trickey
2025-"Botanica in Bloom". A retrospective celebrating 30 years of the Florilegium Society at Chelsea Physic Garden. Founded in 1995, the Florilegium Society has compiled a collection of over 700 botanical illustrations, which record the Garden’s plant collection. 30 illustrations by the Florilegium were placed around the Garden in amongst the plants on interpretation panels. Find out more about the plants and their artists, as well as learning more about the history of botanical art at Chelsea Physic Garden. From Sunday 30 March – Monday 30 June, 11am – 5pm 2025. With thanks to the James & Shirley Sherwood Foundation. Artists: Mariella Baldwin, Andrew Brown, Chrissie Lightfoot, Joan Lundie, Valerie Bradbury, Jo Lindl Edwards, Penny Stenning, Margaret King, Ainslie Ensom, Janet Callender, Guy Eves, Joanna Craig-McFeely, Sally Crosthwaite, Christine Battle, Judi Stone, Caroline Hervey-Bathhurst, Charmian White, Alistair Matthews, Pauline Dean, Nicki Tullett, Barbara McLean, Yvonne Glenister-Hammond, Julia Trickey, Fujiko Muroaka, Liz Sherraz-Clarke, Valerie Bolas, Peggy Dawe, Vivienne Taylor
2024-Founder Margaret King and Chair Mary Ellen Taylor hosted 24 Florilegium (wellbeing related) pieces selected by Hambro & Partners to feature as their summer party theme at CPG. The exhibition was in a marquee on the lower lawn and appreciation from the 450 clients was heartening!
2019 "The Art & Healing Power of Plants". The Chelsea Physic Garden and The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust presented an exhibition that intertwined botanical art, medicine and plants. Click image to view YouTube video.
2015 - 'London's Secret Garden', an exhibition to celebrate The Florilegium's 20th Anniversary. 73 artists showed 75 artworks at The Physic Garden, accompanied by a publication by Andrew Brown (see Publications page). Review by Katherine Tyrrell, click on the image..
2013 - Inner Beauty? Paintings of Medicinal Plants by the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society -at The Royal Horticultural Society.
2013 - Treasures from a Hidden Garden: Plant portraits by the Florilegium Society
2009 - Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York.
2006 - National Botanic Garden of Wales.
2005 - Apothecaries’ Artists, Paintings of Plants Cultivated in the Physic Garden
2003 Exhibition at St. John’s, Smith Square, SW1
2002 Exhibition at The European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
2000 ‘Watercolours from the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society’ The Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh..
1998-The RHS Botanical Art Exhibition, watercolour paintings of ‘Plants associated with Philip Miller growing in Chelsea Physic Garden’. There were 32 paintings by 26 artists and The Society was awarded a Gold Medal.
2015 - “London's Secret Garden”
2013 - “Inner Beauty?” Paintings of Medicinal Plants by the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society - an exhibition at the RHS.
2013 - “Treasures from a Hidden Garden”: Plant portraits by the Florilegium Society
2005 - “Apothecaries' Artists”, Paintings of Plants Cultivated in the Physic Garden