Shirley Sherwood

thumb|right|Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art Shirley Angela Sherwood Order of the British Empire OBE (née Cross; born 1 July 1933) is a British biochemist, botanist, collector of botanical art, author, and philanthropist. She was appointed in the 2012 New Year Honours Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Quotes Hungarian minstrels boarded the train at Szeged Szwgedin, played vigorously for more than two hours and finished with the La Marseillaise Marseillaise, with the chef singing a vociferous solo. The passengers were received by Carol I of Romania King Charles of Hohenzollern at his new Peleș Castle Summer Palace at Pelles. Henri Blowitz De Blowitz managed to arrange an exclusive interview with him, which he glowingly recounted in The Times.After the euphoria of the inaugural trip the Orient Express Express d'Orient settled into a regular routine. Venice Simplon Orient-Express: The World's Most Celebrated Train 4th, illustrated Motorbooks International 1996 9780760302668 https://books.google.com/books?id=tA0KAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=euphoria 28 (188 pages; 1st edition published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1983) A next big step forward was the building of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery by my family. It opened in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2008, and stands next to the Marianne North Gallery. Since then there have been over 50 exhibitions, always with some contributions from my collection and Kew's archives. I had been commissioning and acquiring paintings since 1990 and by 2018 had more than than a thousand works from artists working all over the world. Another milestone was that by 2018 we counted over one million visitors to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery. It has become the central focus of botanical art in the world today and the footfall has increased dramatically. The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art Kew Publishing 2019 9781842466933 1 (312 pages; text & art displayed in Alyona's Watercolour Creations, YouTube video) Quotes about Shirley Sherwood The spectacular works in this book, all exemplars from Dr Shirley Sherwood's incomparable collection of contemporary botanical art, highlight an artistic practice that infuses accuracy with artistry, and deep love of plants, to create new works that rank with the greatest of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Peter Crane Sir Peter Crane, Foreword The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art Kew Publishing 2019 9781842466933 (text & art displayed in Alyona’s Watercolour Creations, YouTube) External links Shirley Sherwood Collection YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@shirleysherwoodcollection7716 Meet Dr Shirley Sherwin 4 December 2018 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85ai0vD7Ns review of Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection by Shirley Sherwood 17 March 2003 Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-297-82270-7 Category:1933 births Category:Living people Category:Botanists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1930s Category:Women scientists from England Category:Biochemists Category:Philanthropists from England