Gael Sellwood has worked as a botanical and natural history artist for over twenty-five years. She uses material from her extensive conservation garden, which provides much of her inspiration. With formal qualifications both in botanical illustration and business for artists and makers, painting is now her main occupation. Gael’s work details found natural objects, affected, renounced, and used by nature. Usually working in watercolour on paper or vellum, her paintings take the viewer to the hedgerow, wayside or garden, recreating a season, a feeling, a scent or an experience for posterity. Her favourite subjects are often dried, curled and care worn, rather than pristine and perfect. She focuses on creating texture and flowing forms in her work. Her most recent work is based on her cottage garden and the countryside around, reflecting the found objects collected on walks or foraged from the garden, secateurs and basket in hand.