Bobbi Angell's botanical illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and popular publications since she began her career in 1978. She has reached a broad audience through seed catalogs, The New York Times weekly Garden Q and A column, which she illustrated from 1995 to 2008, and gardening books, including two based on the NY Times columns. Her work continues to win awards, including the prestigious Jill Smythies Award from The Linnean Society of London, The American Society of Botanical Artists’ Award for Excellence in the Service of Science, and Center for Plant Conservation’s Star Award. She is a board member of The American Society of Botanical Artists and teaches occasional workshops.

Throughout her career, Bobbi's focus has been to illustrate scientific texts with pen and ink drawings created expressly to aid identification of plant species. Using her botanical training, keen observational skills, and artistic sensibility, she creates accurate, exquisitely detailed illustrations. Much of her work represents years of ongoing collaboration with scientists from The New York Botanical Garden and around the world, working from herbarium specimens, pickled flowers, photographs and her own field sketches. Her images are not only scientifically precise but also beautifully composed. The clarity of the microscopic detail provides an intimate view of beauty that usually escapes the naked eye. With 30 years of continuous work and over 2000 species illustrated, Bobbi's ink drawings grace the pages of works destined to be botanic classics, such as Orchids of the Greater Antilles, Intermountain Flora, Vines of Puerto Rico and Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana.

Many of Bobbi's scientific illustrations are accessed through professional websites, and her personal archives include hundreds of pen and ink illustrations of wildflowers, perennials, vegetables and woody plants.~