Beverley Ednie
Botanical Artist

Website: www.beverleyednie.com
Email: bev.ednie@optusnet.com.au
Enquiries: Beverley Ednie - Australia (03) 9830 2012

"Eucalyptus caesia"
Watercolour

Beverley Ednie is a leading Australian botanical artist. She is an established artist and exhibitor, and a passionate promoter of Australian wildlife art and artists. She has hung many exhibitions of original art and also published wildlife and botantical reproductions in a range of media.

Beverley, began her career in graphic art. She trained at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and worked as a freelance artist for many years before developing an interest in wildlife art. In 1975 she joined the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia as a botanical artist, and later served on its Council for three terms, including two years as President in 1998 and 1999. In 2003, she was made a Fellow and Life Member of the Association and was also the guest artist of the WASA Annual Exhibition that year. Beverley has been involved in promoting botanical and wildlife art, and this is now her consuming interest.

Over the past 20 years, Beverley has prepared flora and fauna art exhibitions for art galleries including Balmoral, Hall Street, Australian Impressions, Montrose Gumnut, Noel’s and Eltham Wiregrass. She is a consultant for publishers and manufacturers, commissioning wildlife art for calendars, stationery and other souvenir merchandise. In addition, she has acted as an art agent and markets prints on behalf of local and interstate artists under the name Australian Art Prints.

Beverley has successfully exhibited in several group shows, including the exhibitions of the Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens at the National Herbarium of Victoria, and the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (WASA). She won the Small Painting Award at the 1993 WASA Exhibition and the Drawing Award in 1994. At the 1999 Angair Art Show, she won the Best Exhibit Award.

For the past 15 years, Beverley has been a student at Jenny Phillips' Botanical Art School of Melbourne and, through her association with this school, she was selected to exhibit at the Geelong Art Gallery in June 2001, and at the Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 2001. Most recently, in October 2007, Beverley was a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural Art Prize at the South Australian Museum with her latest work, the Grey Shrike-thrush Nest.

"Grey Shrike-thrush Nest

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