Marina Albert

About Marina Albert

Marina attended a semester at Anita Barley's class in botanical illustration at VCAH Burnley in 1991 and studied botanical illustration with Jenny Phillips.

She joined the Friends of the Royal Botanical Gardens Botanical Illustrators Group in 1992 and has exhibited regularly with that group at the National Herbarium. Her work is included in the Cranbourne florilegium project housed in the Herbarium. This is a collection of paintings of plants growing at Cranbourne Botanical Gardens. These paintings were exhibited at the Herbarium's 150th anniversary celebration in 2003 - "Nature's Art Revealed - 150 years of Botanical Art at the National Herbarium of Victoria".

Marina's works are represented in private collections in Victoria, interstate and overseas. She has exhibited at the Osaka Botanical Gardens and at Kawarra Native Gardens in Victoria.

Marina is interested in the details of cones, small nuts, fruits and leaves.

For more on Marina Albert see
http://www.passionateobservers.org