Stella Ross-Craig
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Stella Ross-Craig (March 19, 1906 — February 6, 2006) was a British illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora.
Her masterpiece Drawings of British Plants was published in 1948 as a series of inexpensive paperbacks, a departure from similar books for professionals and wealthy amateurs. The series took until 1973 to complete and contains over 1300 lithographic plates. The series contained all the British flowering plants except for the grasses and sedges. She often drew from preserved dried specimens kept at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and she worked in black and white.
In 1999 Ross-Craig became only the sixth person to receive the Kew Award medal. In 2003, 55 of her originals were exhibited at Kew Gardens Gallery, her first exhibit ever at age 95.
