Della Purves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Della Purves

British botanical artist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1945

Place of Birth: Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Jan-2008

Profession: painter, botanical illustrator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Rodella Anne Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist.Purves was born in 1945 in Paisley, Scotland, and two years later moved to Edinburgh with her family, where she attended St.
Margaret's School.
She received a degree in agriculture from Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture.
She trained at Cambridge as a seed tester.She spent a year in New Zealand, working for the government's Department of Industry, before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Botanic Garden.Purves left the Botanic Garden in 1976 to concentrate on her career as a botanical artist.
Her work was exhibited around the world, in the United States, Ireland, Japan and Germany, with the Queen's Royal Botanist describing her as one of Britain's leading artists.Purves died on 17 January 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.