Discover the stunning portfolio photography entries celebrating the beauty of plant life for the RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show 2026, at Saatchi Gallery, London
Meet the photography exhibitors and see one of their entries for the 2026 competition
Photography portfolioBritish Tulips
Anne grows her own flowers as subjects for her photography in her garden and allotment in St Albans. This enables her to choose the precise colours and species she likes, showcasing the amazing variety of British flowers available. Her favourite pictures are often taken in the evening when the light is soft, and the flowers have settled in their vase.
Photography portfolioBeneath the Boughs
Bennet is a Kent-based garden reportage photographer who enjoys seeking out special gardens made by passionate plantspeople and capturing their magical moments at dawn. His photographs are published in books, magazines and calendars around the world. As a keen plantsman himself he has opened his own small garden oasis for the National Garden Scheme.
Photography portfolioLotus
Anne Wong is a photographer based in Hong Kong. She has always been intrigued by the graphic elements in nature. With her innate sensibility and ability to connect, the essence of nature is expressed through her photographic visual language. With years of macro photography practice, Anne’s work has the ability to open hearts, invite intimate dialogues and bring inner peace.
Photography portfolioSquare Bananas
Claire often walks from her home in Falmouth, travelling light with just her camera and a single lens, to photograph plants. Her abstract images are full of pattern and colour, detailing texture and form rather than revealing whole plants in their surroundings. The warm climate of Cornwall supports a wide range of unusual plants that make interesting subjects.
Photography portfolioAllium Dance – An Intricate Unveiling
Claudia is an award-winning garden photographer based in Germany, working across Europe. Alongside classic garden photography, she specialises in botanical portraits and fine art floral photography, often captured in her own garden, with an eye for light, movement and composition. Passionate about travel, she seeks out inspiring gardens and their creators, telling visual stories that celebrate plants, people and place.
Photography portfolioThe Glasshouse
Corinne is a documentary photographer from Surrey working with analogue photography, which she processes and prints in her garden darkroom. Her interest in glasshouses is part of a wider fascination with curated spaces in the UK, where exotic flora is cultivated for conservation and spectacle.
Photography portfolioThe Perpetual Garden
Denise is a designer and horticulture enthusiast inspired by botanical specimens gathered from her garden and the surrounding fields and woodland of the South Downs. Preserving them through pressing and drying, she creates photographic compositions that serve as a lasting record of the British countryside’s subtle, transient beauty.
Photography portfolioTulip Portraits
Emilija Petrauskienė is a self-taught photographer from Lithuania. She has worked with analogue methods for more than 15 years. Analogue photography is like mindfulness for her, to set the camera, to compose an image and to wait for the right moment. Photography in her everyday life comes together with gardening and a love of nature, intertwining with scientific studies and work in the medical field. Scientific botanical prints, botanical art and true herbaria are her biggest inspiration.
Photography portfolioAsclepias syriaca: Life and Renewal
Heidi Egerman is a fine art photographer based in Idaho, where she grows and studies the botanical subjects she photographs. Working in a darkened studio, she uses light painting to reveal the structure and detail of plants. Her work is inspired by close observation and a deep appreciation for species that support pollinators and biodiversity.
Photography portfolioNature in a Microcosm
Julie Pigula is a multi-award-winning photographer, gaining her first Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1999. After 20 years as a Senior Biomedical Scientist, she traded her microscope for a camera lens, applying her technical precision to the world of macro photography. Julie’s work captures the intricate, hidden soul of nature with scientific clarity and artistic passion.
Photography portfolioFloating Forests
Konrad Cox is a self-taught photographer specialising in immersive 360-degree panoramas of the New Forest. His work highlights gnarled trees and hidden wonders, offering viewers a unique, all-encompassing perspective that invites them to experience the forest’s beauty from a personal and unconventional angle.
Photography portfolioMumhood
Libby Ellis is a fine art photographer creating contemplative black-and-white photographic portraits of garden-grown flora. Her studio practice is wholly intentional and meditative, with a focus on the divine in nature. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, UK, and Europe, and is held in many collections, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Divinity School.
Photography portfolioA Path of Revelation: Sunflower Under Ultraviolet Light
Liubov Kartashova was born in the north of Ukraine and has loved spending time in nature since childhood. Over the years, her passion for photography and the natural world merged into one. Today, she explores plants under ultraviolet light, uncovering hidden characteristics and revealing a beauty that is almost invisible to the naked eye.
Photography portfolioA Cévenol Garden – Where Grasses Dance
Louise has lived for nearly 20 years in an old stone house perched above a valley in the Cévennes National Park in southern France. Prior to this she ran photographic safaris in Kenya. She likes wild places. Her garden, planted with drought-tolerant local species, and its relationship with the surrounding landscape provide endless inspiration for her photography.
Photography portfolioVelvet Black
Rachel lives, walks and works among the Chiltern Hills and landscape. She works with various cameras and photographic techniques responding to and illustrating her connection with the land and natural world around her. Her work brings our attention to nature’s fragile beauty, and the urgent necessity to protect it, for itself and our own lives and well-being.
Photography portfolioBowing Out Gracefully
Marianne Majerus is among the most appreciated and widely published garden photographers today, with more than 100 books to her name. She sees plants as essential parts of fragile ecosystems and delights in capturing fleeting moments of beauty in their life cycles.
Photography portfolioWhispers of Petals
Melanie Chalk is an amateur photographer based in Sandgate, Kent, where the sea shapes her daily life and creative vision. She is drawn to shifting light, textures and natural rhythms, using photography to slow down, notice more deeply and escape the noise of urban life. Her images reflect mood, detail and a thoughtful connection to the landscape around her.
Photography portfolioAbstracted Representation of Succulents
It is perhaps unsurprising that Peter, now retired and living on the South Coast of England, has combined his lifelong interest in gardening, rooted in a multi generational family of keen gardeners, with his passion for photography. In this body of work, Peter focuses on succulents, recording in intimate detail their colours, structures and textures.
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