Mary Ellen Taylor

Mary Ellen Taylor’s love of flora and fauna began in the Galápagos Islands and Andes where she lived for 2 decades before settling into London in 2003 to complete her Botanical Painting Diploma at the English Gardening School in the Chelsea Physic Garden.

Still based at the Chelsea Physic Garden, Mary Ellen was Chair of the Physic Garden Florilegium for 6 years, has been a member since 2009 and continues to contribute her paintings to the archives to document the Living Plant Collection on site.

Mary Ellen is a fellow of the Linnaean Society, teaches and exhibits in the UK and abroad, accepts commissions and her work has been published, sold internationally and selected for inclusion in the Transylvania Florilegium published under the umbrella of the Prince of Wales’s Foundation Romania.