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English Botanical Artist and Illustrator
About Eliza Ruskin
In 2017, Eliza Ruskin spent seven consecutive months sketching the endangered Lundy cabbage (*Coincya wrightii*) on its sole natural habitat, a windswept limestone plateau off the coast of Devon, producing 43 field studies that later formed the backbone of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ revised conservation assessment. Her illustrations don’t merely depict morphology; they record micro-ecological relationships, the lichen crusts on stem bases, the precise angle of leaf serration under salt stress, the insect galls visible only at 12x magnification. Trained at the Chelsea Physic Garden’s Illustration Programme and later a lead illustrator for the BSBI’s *New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora*, she insists on working exclusively from living specimens in situ, refusing studio composites. Her ink-and-watercolour technique uses handmade pigments derived from native plants, weld for yellow, elderberry for violet, binding art practice to ecological stewardship. This isn’t documentation as record; it’s observation as advocacy.
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