Commissions and paintings
Lucy paints plant portraits for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, captured from life with close attention to detail and natural colour. Others are commissions for specifically requested plants, and in more than one case commissioned as gifts, reflecting a connection between the recipient and a unique plant and place. Finally, some are done for the joy of it, for exhibition and sale.
All images (c) copyright Lucy T Smith
Nepenthes attenboroughii, named for Sir David Attenborough and a gift from the Carnivorous Plant Society on his 90th birthday. Watercolour on paper, 60 x 40cm (24 x 16inches)
Work in progress: the first-night flower of giant water lily Victoria amazonica
Coffea arabica, original artwork for Coffee Species Print for James Hoffman
Nymphaea thermarum, for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Volume 27, Issue 4, December 2010. Watercolour on paper, 12.5 x 21cm (5 x 8 inches)
Detail of Coffea liberica var. 'excelsa,' watercolour on paper
Retispathe dumetosa
Retispathe dumetosa (detail)
Gustavia longifolia, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 7 Issue 4, December 2010. Watercolour on paper, 12.5 x 21cm (5 x 8 inches)
Tahina spectabilis, private commission. Watercolour and gouache on illustration board, 35 x 60cm (14 x 24 inches) PRINT AVAILABLE
Caralluma europaea, detail. Private collection
Pomegranate, watercolour on paper, painted for the Victoria & Albert Museum's interpretation for "Renaissance Watercolour" exhibition
Artwork commissioned of a retiring Kew botanist's study plants and sites, created in a sketchbook style, 2023