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FRIENDS OF
WELLESLEY COLLEGE BOTANIC GARDENS
www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends email: wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu
INSTRUCTORS – WINTER 2021
TARA CONNAUGHTON is an artist & art instructor living
on the coast south of Boston, MA (where she finds much of
her inspiration). She is a student of the Certificate in Botanical Art
& Illustration Program at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens. Her
botanical and nature-inspired paintings have earned multiple
awards, and she has exhibited her work through local and regional
galleries and venues. She uses her passion for painting and love of
nature to inspire others to create and connect with the world
around them.
M. ELLEN DUARTE learned to be creative at a young age. After studying art,
education, and art history at the University of Southern Maine, she became a teacher
for many years. In her spare time she pursued a variety of creative arts and crafts,
including interior decorating, furniture restoration and mural painting. Upon her
retirement from teaching, Ellen was inspired by the New England Society of
Botanical Artists’ exhibit at Boston’s Spring Flower Show. She dedicated herself to
the study of classical botanical art in the program offered by Friends of Wellesley
College Botanic Gardens, receiving her Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration
in 2015. Ellen enjoys making art and gardening at her home on Cape Cod, using many of the plants
she grows as inspiration for her work. www.meduartebotanicals.com
PAM HARRINGTON is a botanical artist, horticulturist and garden
enthusiast. She is enrolled in the Certificate in Botanical Art and
Illustration program at the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens.
Pam is a 2011 graduate of the Certificate in Landscape Design program at
the former Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard
University and the Boston Architectural College. She came to botanical
art through her interest in plants and native flora, and aims to include
plant life stages and field identification features in her art. She is a
Massachusetts Master Gardener and active member of the New England
Society of Botanical Artists (NESBA) Chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA).
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CAROL ANN MORLEY is a professional illustrator and dedicated
teacher of botanical illustration. She is a former coordinator of the
Botanical Art Illustration Certificate Program at The New York
Botanical Garden. Her work has been widely exhibited and published in
Science magazine, Animal magazine, and many Brooklyn Botanic Garden
and NYBG publications.
SARAH ROCHE is WCBG Friend’s Certificate Program Education Director
and has a degree in Graphic Illustration from the University of the West of
England where she majored in Botanical Illustration. She has exhibited at the
Royal Horticultural Society twice, winning a bronze and gilt silver medal for
her watercolor paintings and illustrations in pen and ink. Her work is included
in many collections both in Europe and the United States. An experienced
instructor, Sarah also teaches at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA
where she is a Gallery Artist. She was recently voted an Artist Member of the
prestigious Copley Society of Art in Boston. Sarah is Education Co-chair of
the American Society of Botanical Artists and Founding Director of the New England Society of
Botanical Artists. www.sarahrochebotanicalart.com
JULIA TRICKEY is an award winning botanical artist whose glowing
watercolors depict the beauty and detail of nature. She has been
painting botanical watercolors since 1998 when she joined an adult
education class in South London. She now tutors weekly classes in the
beautiful historic city of Bath and other workshops further afield. She
is particularly drawn to specimens that are less than perfect, especially
autumnal leaves, seed heads and fading flowers. Julia has exhibited
internationally, has work in collections worldwide and has received
numerous awards for her paintings. Julia’s work has been selected for
inclusion in the Transylvania Florilegium presently being created under
the umbrella of the Prince of Wales’s Foundation Romania to record in
a permanent way the flora of Transylvania. And in 2014, Julia’s
illustrations were seen on Royal Mail Post & Go British Flora stamps.
www.juliatrickey.co.uk
