Sabal palm triptych is a collaborative work with three artists, Jacqui Pestell, Işık Güner and Sarah Roberts. Later Sharon Tingey has joined with a brush load with paint.

It all started last year. It was our first trip to Sason, our first climb to Mount Helkis for Iris gatesii. Sadly we were too late for this magnificent flower but we learned is that one slope of this...

I was waiting this for a long time. Although nothing was certain this year, with a last minute decision, I have travelled to Gaziantep to see the carpets of Iris aucheri.

My book ‘Botanical Illustration from Life’ is now in Korean.

...by September there was only one plant left in this old glass house - The Sabal Palm. It is the longest-lived plant in the Living Collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Iris reticulata ssp. isikgunerae

Our subject is the Illustrated Flora of Turkey project and we are on the final stretch with one of its most elusive groups, the Crocus.

Until May 17 we were locked down and on May 18 I was out there. No matter what, I shouldn’t miss this May. So, the idea started to see the Iris gatesii on the Helkis Mountain, Sason.

In 1830 the intrepid Italian naturalist Carlo Bertero collected this remarkable fern from a small group of islands some 300 miles off the coast of Chile known as the Juan Fernández Islands.

It has been a long journey for my book ‘Botanical Illustration From Life’...

What a year we’ve had! While the world was shutting itself down and setting up a new kind of life, individually it was quite something too...

If you like to explore endless meadows of Transylvania, look for sweet plants and paint them in the most amazing studio, I can offer...

As a botanical artist, working in the field with a botanist is heavenly as well as very challenging!

A little beauty, shining blue in the dark green forest. I wanted to prepare this post to able to describe my crush on this plant.

Castanea sativa, sweet chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fagaceae.

Another teaching session has been completed in beautiful city of Mexico, San Miguel de Allende.

My book, Botanical Illustration From Life, which I’ve been working on quite along is finally published!

This is my second round of the same tour with ViraNatura tours - Turkish Silk Road. A magnificent trip indeed...

I don’t know have you ever visit Transylvania, that beautiful part of Romania, but it is strictly recommended. It is truly wonderful to...

Just after I was back to Istanbul from Canaries and planning going home, I received a call from my father who was planning a field trip to the south east of Turkey in two days!!

From Rize to Artvin Şavşat, Kars to Agri Dogubayazıt and Van at the end. There is much to tell from this plant trip that we went out with ViraNatura Tours. But most importantly, it is to be in one of...

I’m very proud to be one of the artist who participate Transylvania Florilegium. I haven’t seen it yet but this monumental book is published...

Amorphophallus Titanum or Titan Arum. Corpse Flower. Biggest inflorescent on earth.

I am used to travel for work probably more than 10 years, but this mainly happens in between same locations. Denver, Colorado was a new destination to me, and I have just met with the Botanic Garden i...

A field trip to a forbidden, yet most amazing land to find some Iris species has been accomplished.

Gunnera tinctoria - Most of you know this painting. After she is selected a few times ‘Best in Show’ in different international exhibitions, she became like my flag-ship painting.

I am happy to say that, I was one of eight artists selected worldwide, to paint wild flowers growing in the meadows of Transylvania in June 2015.

In the first years I have devoted my life to plant painting, the only way I can follow to improve myself is simply ‘paint’ in every possible time, because I have no training or resources on this topic...