Christina
Brodie's
Art
This site features art and illustrations from longstanding author, artist and illustrator Christina Brodie.
The work on this site is focused on botany, natural history, landscapes and the built environment.
​Some work is new, for 2025. Also included are award-winning botanical studies and other work of Christina's, which has never been in the public domain.
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Christina is a versatile artist with a keen eye for aesthetics. She is capable of working across a range of media, and enjoys travelling and recording the world around her - whether through a simple sketch, or beautifully detailed drawing. Always inquisitive, she never ceases to be open to possibilities!
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Dahlias
Project type
Paintings
Date
2002-2004
Location
West Somerset, UK
Up close and personal portraits of dahlias, zooming in on the main flower head.
These paintings are more stylized and draw on traditions of very early botanical painting, where the flower is "stiffer" in appearance, with the painting itself having thicker outlines than is usual in more conventional botanical renderings.
Some of these dahlias came from the garden of Dunster rector Michael Grantham, who was well-known for his Open Garden days and award-winning dahlias!
