Episode 6
Lizzie Harper is a freelance natural history and botanical illustrator with a keen love of nature. Her favourite subjects are grasses, beetles, and wild flowers. Her scientific training as a zoologist helps complement her illustrations.
She works in watercolour, pencil, and pen. With over 25 years’ experience as a free-lance illustrator, she has a broad range of clients.
Publishers, environmental charities, postage stamp designers, packaging firms, design companies, and private individuals have all commissioned her illustrations. She’s illustrated The Hedgerow Handbook, The Garden Forager, and Foraging with Kids by Adele Nozedar. Her work is in the HarperCollins Flower Guide by Streeter, and The Bumper Book of Nature by Stephen Moss. Her illustrations appear in National geographic and BBC Countryfile Magazine.
Lizzie loves nothing more than spending a day immersed in the beautiful landscape round her home in Wales; where she investigates slugs and mosses, and does sketchbook studies of the wild flowers she finds. She works from her garden studio in Hay on Wye where she lives very happily with a long-suffering husband and two lively children.
Find Lizzie here:
https://lizzieharper.co.uk/
Referenced in this episode:
Collins Wild Flower Guide by David Streeter (Illustrated by Lizzie)
New flora of the British Isles by Clive Stace
Drawings of British plants by Stella Ross-Craig
Understanding the Flowering Plants: A Practical Guide for Botanical Illustrators by Anne Bebbington
Large piece of turf by Albrecht Dürer
Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer
The Wild Flowers of the British Isles by David Streeter and Ian Garrard
Illuminated manuscripts
Franz Bauer
Sketch of a Blue Swimmer crab by Ferdinand Bauer
Roses (1817-1821) and Lillies (1802-1815) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Metamorphosis of the insects of Suriname by Maria Sibylla Merian
Clutius Botanical Watercolours collected by Theodorus Clutius
Fruit portraits by William Hooker
Ernst Haeckel
Fungus and spider illustrations by Beatrix Potter
Margaret Mee
A Life on our Planet: My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future by David Attenborough and illustrated by Lizzie Harper
The Birds of America by John James Audubon
Winsor and Newton Series 7, #1 brush
Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Watercolour Paints
Fluid 100 Watercolor Hot Press paper
Stonehenge Aqua paper
Survivors by Richard Fortey
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
Charles Dickens
Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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