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Publications
  • Simpson, N. & P.G. Barnes (2008). Photography and Contemporary Botanical Illustration. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. (in press)
  • Simpson, N. (2007). Digital botanical illustrations. Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2007-2008.
  • Simpson, N. (2007). Digital Diversity: a new approach to botanical illustration (exhibition catalogue) Guildford.
  • Simpson, N. (2005). Botanical illustration goes digital. The Plantsman n.s. 4: 208-215.
  • Simpson, N. (2005). Poster 2711 in Abstracts of the XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna.



Berlin exhibition catalogue
Catalogue available: £5.00 plus P&P.
ISBN: 978-0-9554917-0-2
Exhibitions
Mar - Apr 2008: Meadowcroft Nursery, Battlesbridge, Essex. 20 images will be on display in the cafe for the nursery's Viola Festival March 14th - April 14th 2008
Mar - May 2008: Benmore Botanic Garden, Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland. 6 images will be on display as part of CLASSIFY - a new exhibition on biodiversity and taxonomy March 21st - May 18th 2008
Nov 2007: a selection of images will be on display at the Linnean Society, London, for the conference Colour and Design - colour in plants and animals.
Oct 2007: Royal Horticultural Society London Show, Photography section, 'Botanical details of 8 deciduous trees'.
Jul 2007 - Jan 2008: CLASSIFY - a new exhibition on biodiversity and taxonomy at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, includes six composite images
Mar - May 2007: 'Digital Diversity - a new approach to botanical illustration' in the gallery at the Botanical Garden & Botanical Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Oct 2005: Royal Horticultural Society London Show, Photography section, part-funded by the RHS 2005 Photographic Bursary; set of 16 digital botanical plant portraits.
Jul 2005: Scientific poster presentation at XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna.
Oct 2004: the Royal Horticultural Society London Show, Photography section; exhibit entitled 'Digital Digitalis'.
Jan 2004: Display of first digital illustrations in the Laboratory Reception area at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley, Surrey.
Awards
2007: RHS Gold Medal (composite digital illustrations)
2005: RHS Silver-gilt Medal (photography)
2005: RHS Photographic Bursary
2004: RHS Silver-gilt Medal (photography)
2003: Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust award
1998: RHS Gold Medal (watercolour paintings)
1991: Alpine Garden Society Gold Medal at the 6th International Rock Garden Plant Show
1989-1996: RHS Silver and Silver-gilt Medals (watercolour paintings)
1989: RHS Grenfell Medal (watercolour paintings)