About janestark

After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada and working for several years in commercial art studios in Canada and the US, I moved to Ireland, and spent over 30 years working as a natural history illustrator and book designer. For a number of years, whilst freelancing, I taught art part-time at a local secondary school. In 2004, I wrote and published, with my husband, a popular field guide, 'Connemara Wild Flowers'. An early interest in painting highly detailed miniatures, combined with a knowledge and love of all forms of plantlife, eventually led me to specialise in botanical art. In addition to painting both wild and cultivated plants, I curate the annual Claregalway Botanical Art Expo at Claregalway Castle, am presently Communications Officer for the Irish Society of Botanical Artists, and I run botanical painting courses and workshops in the west of Ireland. My work hangs in collections in Ireland, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands.