Wave Hill botanical garden, NYC. 2018
About Anna Suprunenko
Anna was born in Russia and developed a fascination with the natural world from a young age. Although her academic background led her in a different direction, she discovered botanical art in 2015 and was immediately drawn to its balance of scientific precision and artistic sensitivity. She studied the foundations of Botanical Art under the guidance of Alexander Viazmensky for two years in St. Petersburg Botanical Garden.
Since 2016, she has been working as a freelance botanical illustrator, gradually building a body of work that reflects her attention to light, form, and colour in plants. In 2020, she was endorsed for the UK Global Talent Visa and relocated from Ljubljana, Slovenia to London, where she continues to live and work. A Fellow Member of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA), she has participated in more than 40 group exhibitions across eight countries.
Her paintings Knautia arvensis and Gentiana asclepiadea were included in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Florilegium in 2020, her piece Calypso bulbosa Orchid is held in the collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, and also has received the Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal 2019 with group for Series of Parrot Tulip paintings.
Her current artistic focus lies in two areas: large-format compositions featuring dried flowers and a deepening exploration of scientific botanical illustration techniques. She is particularly interested in how botanical art can help people see the connection between art and nature. Her work aims to highlight the fragile beauty of plants while contributing to a broader conversation about biodiversity and conservation.
AWARDS
• SBA Certificate of Botanical Merit, 2025
• SBA Exhibiting Excellence in watercolour, 2022
• RHS Gold Medal Group, 2019
• SBA Certificate of Botanical Merit, 2019
• Jurors Award, Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition, Flora Russia; 2018
EXHIBITIONS
2025
• SBA 'Plantae', Mall Galleries, London, UK
• 10th St. Petersburg Botanical Art Exhibition, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
2024
• 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburg
2023
• SBA 'Plantae', Mall Galleries, London, UK
2022
• 25th Annual International Exhibition by American Society of Botanical Artists and Wave Hill, USA
• Saint Petersburg Botanical Art Exhibition, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• SBA 'Plantae', Mall Galleries, London, UK
• "Spring meetings" The Seventh St. Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
2021
• "In search of beauty" Saint Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• SBA ‘Plantae’ Online, London, UK
• Recent Works from 2020, a group show of the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California presented at the Brody Botanical Center, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA
• "The Art of Contemplation" The Sixth Saint Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• "Dreams of Spring" Festival, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
2020
• "Art-Botany" - The month of Botanical Art at the art-shop "Art-Kvartal", St. Petersburg, Russia
• Florilegium: A gathering of flowers, at Inverleith House, in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
• The 26th Annual Conference - Online by ASBA
• Dare to be Square! Small Works Online Exhibition, American Society of Botanical Artists
• The Fifth Annual Saint Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• "Purely Botanical?" Online Exhibition by Association of British Botanical Artists
• Botanical Art Exhibition, National Natural Science Museum of Ukraine, Kiev
• ‘Botanical Diversity’, KreativRaum Galerie, Vienna, Austria
• SBA ‘Plantae’ Online, London, UK
2019
• 22nd Annual International Exhibition by American Society of Botanical Artists and Marin Art & Garden Center, USA
• "The Orchard", a group show of the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California presented at the Brody Botanical Center, The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA
• RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show 2019, Lindley Hall, London
• SBA ‘Plantae’, Mall Galleries, London, UK
• "Grace of Nature", The Fourth Annual Saint Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• Almost Dry: Recent Works from 2018, a group show of the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California presented at the Brody Botanical Center, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA
2018
• "Plants. Myths and Legends", 5th Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Moscow, Russia
• Florentia International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Tuscan Horticultural Society, Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
• 21st Annual International Exhibition by American Society of Botanical Artists and Wave Hill, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, USA
• Blooming days in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
• Amazing Trees, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA
• Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition. Flora Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
• International Botanical Art Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
• "New Horizons", The Third Annual Saint Petersburg Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia
• Portraits of Bonsai from The Huntington Collection. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA
2017
• 20th Annual International Exhibition by American Society of Botanical Artists and the Horticultural Society of New York, New York Design Center, USA
• Ficus, The Fig Family, San Diego Botanic Garden, South California, USA
• Blossom Time, The State Museum Pavlovsk, Russia
2016
• Fall Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Moscow, Russia
• International Calligraphy Exhibition “Image and letter — 2016”, St. Petersburg, Russia
• First St. Petersburg Botanical Exhibition of Botanical Art, St. Petersburg, Russia