Georita Harriott trained at Middlesex Polytechnic and has a BA honours in scientific illustration and a PGCE in Art from Cambridge University.

At the moment she is a freelance botanical illustrator for Kew Gardens in London. She has recently  won three Royal Horticultural Society  gold medals, for lavender drawings for the Kew Gardens Lavandula Monograph in 2004,  for Passiflora drawings in 2005 (offered as prints on this website), and for Lathyrus watercolour drawings in 2008. The Passion flowers were drawn from Cambridge University Botanic gardens, glass house collection.

She has also worked for London Zoo, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and various international publications. Her work is in Kew Gardens archives and the Hunt Institute's collection.

She also works to private commission and can be contacted through this website. See contact details.

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