Let’s give botanical artist Daleen Roodt her flowers! Hot on the heels of South Africa’s winning display at the Chelsea Flower Show, Daleen achieved another floral feat after she won RHS gold and Best Artwork on show at the RHS Botanical Art Show!
London, United Kingdom (18 June 2024) — Hot on the heels of South Africa’s winning display at the Chlesea Flower Show, our country has achieved another floral feat thanks to botanical artist Daleen Roodt.
While floral artist Leon Kluge led South Africa’s golden return to the world-famous floral stage after a lengthy hiatus, botanical artist Daleen (37) added another gold medal to South Africa’s tally in addition to winning Best Artwork on Show at the RHS Botanical Art Show.
The show, held at the Saatchi Gallery in London, is the most prestigious exhibition of botanical art in all the world.
There, artists must exhibit six top class artworks under a theme. The artwork is then judged by an expert panel of 7 professionals. But, all this only comes after artists are approved to participate in the event in the first place; a highly selective process that’s followed by a five-year period in which the artists are given to prepare the works they’ll present.
The artworks are then judged based on a criteria of botanical accuracy, technical skill and exact colour reproduction. Not to mention, attention to detail and aesthetic appeal.
Of course,loads of work went into the South African botanical artist’s blossoming moment. After being awarded the Dawn Jolliffee Art Bursary by the RHS Bursaries Committee in support of her project, over a period of three flowering seasons, Daleen studied indigenous orchids and their pollinators across South Africa, in their natural environments.
It took many days and hours of fieldwork across three difference provinces on top of almost 1200 hours to complete her watercolour paintings. As for the massive orchid painting, that took a whopping 360 hours!
Taking all of this into account makes Daleen’s success that much more impressive in addition to the fact that she was the only South African artist who participated.
Daleen received an RHS Gold Medal and was awarded Best Artwork on Show for her larger-than-life orchid painting at the RHS Botanical Art Show in London—a fantastic floral feat! Her exhibit (indigenous orchids and pollinators) hung proudly with world-class artwork by artists from Australia, Italy, Japan and Korea all the way to the USA and the UK.
You can keep up with Daleen’s creations here.
Sources: Daleen Roodt
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