About the Artist
Beverley Ednie is a leading Australian botanical artist. She is an
established artist and exhibitor, and a passionate promoter of Australian
wildlife art and artists. She has hung many exhibitions of original art and
also published wildlife and botantical reproductions in a range of media.
Beverley, began her career in graphic art. She trained at the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and worked as a freelance artist
for many years before developing an interest in wildlife art. In 1975 she
joined the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia as a botanical artist,
and later served on its Council for three terms, including two years as
President in 1998 and 1999. In 2003, she was made a Fellow and Life
Member of the Association and was also the guest artist of the WASA
Annual Exhibition that year. Beverley has been involved in promoting
botanical and wildlife art, and this is now her consuming interest.
Over the past 20 years, Beverley has prepared flora and fauna art
exhibitions for art galleries including Balmoral, Hall Street,
Australian Impressions, Montrose Gumnut, Noel’s and Eltham Wiregrass.
She is a consultant for publishers and manufacturers, commissioning
wildlife art for calendars, stationery and other souvenir merchandise.
In addition, she has acted as an art agent and markets prints on behalf
of local and interstate artists under the name Australian Art Prints.
Beverley has successfully exhibited in several group shows, including the
exhibitions of the Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens at the National
Herbarium of Victoria, and the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (WASA).
She won the Small Painting Award at the 1993 WASA Exhibition and the
Drawing Award in 1994. At the 1999 Angair Art Show, she won the
Best Exhibit Award.
For the past 15 years, Beverley has been a student at Jenny Phillips'
Botanical Art School of Melbourne and, through her association with
this school, she was selected to exhibit at the Geelong Art Gallery
in June 2001, and at the Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
in October 2001. Most recently, in October 2007, Beverley was a finalist
in the Waterhouse Natural Art Prize at the South Australian Museum with
her latest work, the Grey Shrike-thrush Nest.
