As one of the world’s most celebrated botanical artists, Coral Guest is most renowned for her life-size watercolours of flowers and fruit. Her work is described by the art critic Richard Cork as having a ’life of its own’ and ‘the wow factor’.

Guest has taken a traditional form of watercolour painting and brought it forward into the new millennium, influencing a whole new generation of botanical artists. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, receiving both the Drawing Scholarship and the Travel Scholarship. Her work is widely represented innational collections including that of the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Contemporary Botanical Art at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Hunt Botanical Institute and the Royal Horticultural Society. Her work was brought to the attention of a wider public in 1985, with her first solo show at Oliver Swann Galleries in Walton Street. She has exhibited regularly with us since.

Coral Guest was a Flower Painting Tutor at Kew for 13 years, before embarking on a world tour of masterclasses and a book describing her unique working methods.