Biography

Bobbi Angell illustrates and cultivates plants at her solar-powered homestead in the hills of southern Vermont. Since 1978, she has been drawing plants for the botanists of The New York Botanical Garden, The Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, and other academic institutions, contributing her richly detailed line drawings to regional floras and botanical monographs. Her scientific illustrations focus on tropical plants of the Caribbean and Central and South America, including many new to science.

Another aspect of Bobbi’s work depicts more familiar subjects. Pen and ink portraits of common and uncommon garden plants grace the Thursday House and Home section of the New York Times, featured in the weekly Garden Q and A column. Many of these illustrations have been compiled in 1000 Gardening Questions & Answers and The Gardener’s Essential Companion. John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds and Van Engelen Bulb Co. feature her botanical illustrations in their catalogs and seed packets, as do newsletters of Bryant Park Restoration Corp and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Working mainly in pen and ink, her archives include hundreds of images of wildflowers, perennials, vegetables and shrubs and trees. While new illustrations are commissioned each week, many of the existing portraits are available for one time use for publication. ~