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Last Name Bownas

Given Name Sheila Catherine °

alt. Names S. C. B. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1925 in Linton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, UK

Year died 2007

Place of death

Father's occupation father Reg & mother Minnie owned and ran the village general store

Relatives Minnie (mother) ;

Education Skipton Art College in the 1940s before securing a scholarship at the Slade School of Art in London

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Anthony Clive Jermy (1932-?) & Thomas Gaskell Tutin (1908-1987): British Sedges. A handbook to the species of carex found growing in the British Isles (London 1968) ; as a freelance designer, making designs for Liberty and Co., Crown Wallpapers, Marks and Spencer, Laura Ashley, the Natural History Museum and more ;

Patronage Natural History Museum ; Botanical Society of the British Isles ;

Collaborators

Techniques botanical drawing

Sample(s) http://sheilabownas.co.uk/history/national-history-museum/

Archival sources http://sheilabownas.co.uk/history/linton-life/ & http://sheilabownas.co.uk/history/

Published sources

other S.B. is mostly known for her artsy work on patterns inspired by botany, but in 1962ff she also conducted scientific botanical work for the Natural History museum which led to a six-year assignment for the BSBI (Botanical Society of the British Isles)

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