Trish Murphy has been interested in native plants and wild places since she was a small child. She was introduced to botany by her father, RJK Murphy, who was a notable woodsman. Trish is past President of the North American Native Plant Society, has coordinated seed exchanges for NANPS and the Toronto Wildflower Society, and has propagated and planted thousands of wildflowers in diverse naturalization projects.
She has been a member of the Field Botanists of Ontario since 1996 and has been drawing her beloved native wildflowers in coloured pencil for about as long. It has only been since 2008 that she has been painting in watercolour.
More of Trish’s botanical art can be seen on her website.
Contact Trish at botanicalart[at]bell.net.