Visit The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens, England

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Shirley Angela Sherwood (born 1 July 1933) is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist. She is primarily a collector of, and author of books about, botanical illustrations. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens is named after her. It is the first gallery in the world dedicated solely to botanical art. Sherwood has been described as a "driving force behind a revival of interest in botanical art".

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