Jennifer Duval-Smith Botanical Art

Jennifer Duval-Smith an Auckland based botanical watercolour artist and nature journalist. Her personal mission is to reconnect people back to nature and their own innate creativity, while having fun, preferably in beautiful places.

Currently Artist in Residence at Auckland Domain Wintergardens, where she teaches an annual workshop series and is the leader of the Exploring Botanical Watercolours course at at Te Uru Waitakere Gallery in Titirangi.

She uses nature journaling principles to teach students to become more observant, to use their intentional curiosity and form new connections. These tools and techniques will allow the student to become a more accurate, confident and engaged artist. This method helps beginners overcome artistic anxiety and to improve results for more experienced artists.

If you would like to learn more about Jennifer and her work, you can check out her website here or listen to this recent podcast interview.

Artist in Residence Auckland Domain Wintergardens 2023-2024 (current)

Work selected for Botanical Art Worldwide 2025

Creator of “The Nature Space” for the professional association of professionals in the addiction field DAPAANZ Cutting edge conference

Creator and facilitator of The Auckland Wintergarden Sunday Art Series 2023

Exploring Botanical Watercolours course at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery 2022 to current

Workshop facilitator, 7th Global Annual Global Botanic Gardens Congress, Melbourne 2022

Work exhibited at Art of Botanical Illustration at Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria, Melbourne 2022

Artist in Residence, Taranaki Garden Festival 2022/23

Workshop facilitator, International Botanical Gardens Day - Auckland Botanical Gardens 2022

Friends’ Visiting Artist in Residence at Auckland Botanic Gardens 2021

Solo exhibition ‘Feast Your Eyes - The Colour and Beauty of Edible Plants’

Public nature journaling workshop programme

Work selected for ‘Botanical Art Worldwide 2018 - Nga Tipu Taketake – Indigenous Flora’,