About
Maura Chamberlain is a Botanical Illustrator who has a particular interest in endemic (native) species in the locations and their movement from their original locations to their cultivation worldwide.
She has specialist skills in this field and her interests in plants has helped her deepen her understanding and passion for botanical illustration.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Art and Education, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania;
Diploma of Botanical Illustration, Chelsea School of Botanical Art, Chelsea Physic Garden, London;
Experience Professional
Professional Artist, with experience establishing Studio in Hobart CBD painting Tasmanian endemic plants;
Botanical Art Society of Australia 2020, Artist residency and exhibition for ‘Arts on Main’ Gloucester, VA, USA;
Amicus Botanicus – alumni society for the graduates of The Chelsea School of Botanical Art;
Florilegium Group, Cliveden, UK National Trust: From 2018 Florilegium Group, Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, University of Oxford;
Director, Friends’ Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, Oxford, 2013 – 2020 Events and Fundraising Co-ordinator, Friends’ Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum;
Art teacher, Dragon School, Oxford, UK – ceramics, painting, printmaking, drawing & sculpture;
Founder & Designer of clothing manufacturing business, ‘Bacall’ London;
Secondary School Art Teacher, Launceston Church Grammar School Launceston, Tasmania
Secondary School Art Teacher, Reece High School, Devonport, Tasmania, 1985
Exhibitions
Saving Macquarie Island, Mawson Pavilion, Hobart, May 2025
Antarctic Exhibition, Art Society of Tasmania Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart 2024
Takayna – A Journey, Bob Brown Foundation, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart 2022
Flora The Art and Science of the Plant, Botanical Art Society of Australia Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart 2021
Oxford Florilegium Exhibition, The University of Oxford. Botanic Garden and Arboretum & Department of Plant Sciences St Johns’ College, Oxford, UK 2021
May Arts Week, group exhibition, Oxford Arts on Main, Botanical Print exhibition, Gloucester, VA, USA 2020
Florilegium Group exhibition, Oxford Botanic Garden, UK 2019
Arts Week Oxford ‘In Bloom’ Oxford, UK 2018
