Katherine Manisco is a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art London University. She also studied art at the Accademia Dell’Arte in Florence. The artist is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, member of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Florilegium Society, the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA. Her work is included in the collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood, and has been published in Dr. Sherwood’s books: Contemporary Botanical Artists and A Passion for Plants. Dr. Sherwood’s collection has toured the world and been shown at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian; Denver Art Museum; and the Ashmolean Museum among others.

Katherine Manisco’s watercolours are included in the Highgrove Florilegium, England, under the aegis of the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Foundation. In 1993, she was awarded the Grenfell Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society and in 2002, she received the annual "Award for Excellence in Botanical Art" from the ASBA. Her extensive list of exhibitions includes solo shows at The Colnaghi Gallery London, 2003; The Artis Group, Palm Beach, 2003; and The Limonaia, Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Pitti in 2004.

To contact the artist:

TEL//FAX: New York 212.744.5867
TEL//FAX: Rome 39.06 .42903999
Email address: katart@mclink.it