Siriol Sherlock made her name as a botanical artist, exhibiting widely, teaching and writing books on the subject. She is widely recognised as one of the world's top contemporary botanical artists.

In recent years family life and 'other large projects' have taken over and very little of her work has been exhibited for a decade. She has, however, been 'keeping her hand in' with occasional commissions and plenty of teaching. She has recently built a proper art studio in her garden in Hampshire and is feeling inspired to work whenever there is time - although, as all artists know, there is never enough time - unless you become obsessed at the cost of everything else in your life and become 'a Van Gogh'. She is slowly getting back to work - albeit with less of the botanical illustration and more experimental new work because, in Siriol's words, "I don't seem to have the time or the patience for botanical illustration that I used to. Watercolour will always be my first love and where my main expertise lies, but I am currently enjoying the new challenges of working with  different media - in particular oil paint on canvas and feltmaking with wool and silk fibres. Colour, light and the beauty of our amazing natural world have always been the main inspiration behind my work and  continue to inspire my new work."

Siriol is behind an exciting art initiative in Hampshire - 'Rum's Eg', a new art & craft gallery in Romsey run by Hampshire Art & Craft Community Interest Company - go to the News & Exhibitions page for information and a link to the website.

She is unable to accept any commissions or sell from this website as she is currently working full time as a Director for Hampshire Art & Craft with no time to paint for the foreseeable future! The only place to buy any of Siriol's work is now at Rum's Eg. 

NB: Copyright of all images on this site remains with the artist,  unless rights have been sold by agreement. A note from Siriol to aspiring artists : 'hopefully my paintings may help and inspire you but please do not copy them and put them in an exhibition - it has happened before! Anyone looking to copy them for any form of reproduction, without permission, beware - I have been known to prosecute!'