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Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee. BY Kayleigh-Anne. Her life. She was born 22 may 1909. She died on the 30 December 1988(aged 79) She was married twice. Firstly to Reginald Bruce Bartlett in January1936 and secondly to Greville Mee. Her career.

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Margaret Mee

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  1. Margaret Mee BY Kayleigh-Anne

  2. Her life • She was born 22 may 1909. • She died on the 30 December 1988(aged 79) • She was married twice. Firstly to Reginald Bruce Bartlett in January1936 and secondly to Greville Mee

  3. Her career • After the war she studied art at St. Martin's School of Art, London. • she attended the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where she learnt her style of illustration • She moved to Brazil with Greville Mee, in 1952 to teach art in the British school of São Paulo. • first expedition was in 1956 to Belém in the Amazon Basin.

  4. Botanical artist • became a botanical artist for São Paulo's Instituto de Botanica in 1958, • exploring the rainforest • Painting the flowers she saw • Most of her work was done on location in the rainforest. • She sketched in pencil and then painted in gouache. (A method of painting with watercolours mixed with a preparation of gum.

  5. My botanical art • This is my flower

  6. Botanical artist • A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical subjects such as trees and flowers. The job requires great artistic skill, attention to fine detail, and technical botanical knowledge. Typical illustrations will be in watercolour, in life size, or if not, the scale shown, and show face and reverse of leaves, flowers, bud, seed and root system

  7. January 14 2012 home work By Kayleigh-Anne THE END…

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