BOOKS THAT TEACH AND INSPIRE

Botanical Art: The Watercolour Art Pad

by Rachel Pedder-Smith

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Fifteen ready-to-use templates of flowers, fruit

and vegetables on art paper for beginners to teach themselves the art of watercolours. (Mitchell

Beazley/RHS, £16.99)

Botanical Art Techniques

by The American Society

of Botanical Artists

A guide to every major technique, with step-bystep projects from beginner to advanced, based on mouthwatering

original images. (Timber Press, £30)

Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History

by Martyn Rix

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Drawn mostly from original works held in the collections of the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Kew, some never seen before, these striking images of

Indian plants span a period of 300 years. (Kew Publishing, £25)