BOTANICAL ART/ CERAMICS/ ILLUSTRATION
Following a course in horticultural design, I was self-taught as a botanical artist, and went on to teach botanical art at RHS Rosemoor and other adult education venues, as well as writing for online microscopy magazine Micscape. I wrote the book "Drawing and Painting Plants" for publishers A & C Black in 2006, and previously won 2 RHS Gold Medals for botanical painting. My natural history and microscopic illustrations are in RHS collections and have been requested for use by international scientific institutions. I provided illustrations for the Honda Spring/ Summer advertising campaign of 2011.
As a horticultural designer, I illustrated both my own designs and those of other landscape gardeners, with AutoCAD and fine hand-drawn plans, as well as winning a Gold Medal at the National Amateur Gardening Show for an interior garden design.
I produced digitally printed transfer patterns for
ceramics,and designs for embroidery, music promotion
and book covers.
More of my natural history illustrations, as well as my more
general illustration work, can be viewed at
GALLERY - BOTANICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY
Trees rendered in different media: gouache, pen and pencil.
Painting documenting the distinctive patterns, or honey guides, on the inside surface of a flower which guide insect pollinators.
An apple in various stages of development, from flower to fruit. Showing seeds, flower and fruit painted in various stages of development. Gouache on paper.
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Autumn leaves from Westonbirt Arboretum, rendered in gouache and inks. Illustrated are leaves of two types of oak, plane, sweet chestnut, birch, beech, katsura and three types of maple, as well as fragments of larch needles, an acorn and a spindleberry.
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Pen and ink study of tulips.
Pencil and wash study of wheat.
Pencil and wash study of daffodils.
Winter twigs used for winter colour and decorative weaving: willow, bramble and three types of dogwood. Gouache on paper
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Includes cones from fir, Douglas fir, a large-coned pine, sequoia, cryptomeria. Gouache on paper.
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Juniper, thuja; Lawson's cypress; cypress, crytomeria; sequoiadendron. Acrylic on paper.
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Cladonia fimbriata; C. bellidiflora; C. coniocraea. Acrylics on paper.
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Including cultivars of ivy, hosta, zonal geranium, cyclamen, box, Euonymus, Aucuba japonica, Thujopsis dolobrata. Gouache on paper.
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Polytrichum formosum; a species of Sphagnum; Thuidium tamariscinum; Rhytiadelphus triquetrus. Acrylics on paper.
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Fly agaric; cauliflower fungus; a bolete; birch polypore; Lactarius turpis; sulphur tuft; blusher. Gouache on paper.
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Showing tree in winter and summer; male catkins; branch in leaf; female catkins; acorns; winter twig and galls. Gouache on paper.
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Garlic corm, daffodil bulb, ginger and iris rhizomes, lily bulb, gladiolus corm, potato tuber, parsnip taproot, adventitious roots of ivy. Gouache on paper.
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Includes heads of clematis, shepherd’s purse, wintersweet, marigold, thistle, umbellifers, St John’s Wort, sweet pea. Acrylic on paper.
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Development of sunflower and maize seeds. Gouache and black acrylic gesso on paper.
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One of the illustrations produced for the Honda Spring/ Summer ad campaign of 2011.
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One of the illustrations produced for the Honda Spring/ Summer ad campaign of 2011.
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One of the illustrations produced for the Honda Spring/ Summer ad campaign of 2011.
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Seaweeds from Jersey. Pencil on paper.
Seaweeds from Jersey. Pencil on paper.
Seaweeds from Jersey. Pencil on paper.
Gouache painting of eagle.
Gouache painting of hominid skulls.
Gouache painting of dodo.
Two halves of an ammonite, which have partly been replaced with iron compounds. The pyrite replacing the half on the left of the picture has been converted to its oxidised form haematite. Acrylic on illustration board.
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Gouache illustration showing different types of bird beak.
Gouache illustration showing different types of dinosaur.
Various acrylic media on illustration board. This is a painting from a microscope slide by slidemaker Klaus Kemp, showing 55 different butterfly scales. They show a remarkable variety of shape, form and colour.
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Canvas painting of a 5-sided diatom in acrylic, accentuating the structure of the glass frustule.
From a slide by Brian Darnton, of diatom species from the Westerschelde, The Netherlands. A three-sided diatom with a honeycomb-like appearance due to its hexagonal areolae (the holes in its shell, or frustule). Black scraperboard
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3-sided diatom, rendered in black scraperboard.
4-sided Diatom, rendered in black scraperboard.
Christina Brodie's first website, showing her botanical paintings and drawings.
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Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for luxury hotel brochure.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Watercolour for set of recipe cards.
Magazine spread incorporating antioxidant foods.
Juniper twig drawn for promotional cards
Chamomile sprig based on historical drawing of chamomile/ daisy family flower, for promotional cards.
Allspice twig, based on historical drawing of allspice, for promotional cards.
GALLERY - CERAMICS
Watercolour design for a cup, along an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Watercolour design for a saucer, along an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Pencil design for a cup, along an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Pencil design for a saucer, along an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Pink and white cup portraying a windy day. Alice chases the White Rabbit across the body of the cup.
Cup interior shows Alice falling down the rabbit-hole, with a "Drink Me" flask at the bottom.
A windy day, featuring a storm in a teacup and a surprise "Drink Me" bottle pictured on the part of the saucer underneath the cup.
Pink and white plate with slogan "The Queen Says: Let Them Eat Cake".
3 mugs in "The Queen Says" series, with witty slogans.
Decorative design to be fired onto ceramic honeypot, in the style of David Gentleman.
Decorative design to be fired onto ceramic honeypot, in the style of David Gentleman.
Mockup of sweet jar design with paper templates.
Mockup of sweet jar design with paper templates.
Mockup of ceramic ladle design with paper templates.
Decorative design to be fired onto ceramic ladle interior.
Mockup of ceramic ladle design with paper templates.
Decorative design to be fired onto ceramic jampot, in the style of David Gentleman.
Decorative design to be fired onto ceramic jampot, in the style of David Gentleman.
Mockup of design for ceramic toast rack with paper templates.
Design showing Alice in Wonderland/ The Queen of Hearts holding The Mad Hatter's Tea Party at her court. Design for bulbous teapot.
Design showing the Queen of Hearts' minions building a castle made of sugar lumps, before it is washed away by a rainstorm, for which a teapot is implicitly held responsible. Design for bulbous sugar bowl.
Wallpaper design based on shining Japanese silks and featuring dragons and suns.
Batik style dragon design for tile.
B/w version of knight on horseback tile.
Red version of knight on horseback tile.
Chunky 4 x 4" tiles with lion design.
Design with botanical drawing of waterlily and goldfish.
Profile drawing of girl with flowers.
Botanical drawing of dahia on red background.
Profile drawing of girl in red and white colourway.
Botanical drawing of waterlily in primary colours colourway.
Botanical drawing of passionflower in yellow and white colourway.
Victorian style tile panel featuring birds in a tree.
Victorian style tile panel featuring tropical shells and starfish.
Victorian style tile panel featuring a row of pineapples.
Tile depicting the letter A.
Tile depicting the letter E.
GALLERY - GENERAL ILLUSTRATION AND OTHER DESIGN
Front cover for the poem "A Golfin'Dolphin" by Anthony Fairweather.
Vector design for logo for an embroidery company.
Front page of LADA Design School website with LADA logo.
Image from LADA Design School Website.
Image from LADA Design School Website.
Image from LADA Design School Website.
Image from LADA Design School Website.
Design for music night sign, to be rendered in mirror mosaic and shisha mirrors.
Poster advertising entertainment at London's Bohemia Cafe.
Logo design for Christian centre.
Pencil drawing of San Vitale, Ravenna.
Pencil drawing of San Francesco Church, Ravenna.
Pencil drawing of Theodoric's Temple, Ravenna.
Pencil drawing of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna.
Pencil drawing of armour from the Museo Nazionale, Ravenna.
Design for digital print onto leather.
Rubber stamp design.
Rubber stamp design.
Illustration for the poem "A Galaxy In Sand" by Christina Brodie.
Illustration for the poem "A Galaxy In Sand" by Christina Brodie.
Pen and ink and pencil drawing on coloured paper.
3-D drawing of Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor.
Water feature planting plan for a private garden.
Planting plan for a walled garden.
Construction design detail rendered in ink.
Site survey, for a private garden.
Designed by Christina Brodie. Gold Medal Winner at the National Amateur Gardening Show.
View showing orchids planted on a moss-covered log and a bottle garden with miniature orchids.
Detail from the Temple of Flora garden plan.
Complete plan for the Temple of Flora garden.