LIVE in the studio with Daleen Roodt

As part of ASBA’s 27th Annual International, we’ll visit with South African artist Daleen Roodt in her studio. The one-hour session will allow 45 minutes of tour and presentation, and 15 minutes for a Q & A. Sessions can be viewed live or on demand for two weeks following live airing. Take a peek inside Daleen Roodt’s studio in South Africa, and learn more about how she got started as a botanical artist, what drives her work, and how she achieves her beautiful in situ watercolors. Follow her into the field as she captures wild orchids in their habitats, and learn what special accommodations she has to make in order to record the information she needs in her studies. Daleen’s work features pollinators associated with her botanical subjects and accurate information gathering for those is essential to tell a more complete story about the featured subject.

This event is free for SI members! To get the access code, please email Melissa at melissa@societyillustrators.org, who will verify your membership and send you the code.

Daleen Roodt began her career with freelance scientific illustration in 2008 and has since specialized in indigenous orchids of South Africa. She enjoys painting outdoors and portraying in situ scenes. Daleen works in watercolor, copper etching, and silverpoint, as well as painting on vellum. Her artwork appears in the Grootbos Florilegium. Daleen received a gold medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 2024, as well as its “Best Botanical Artwork” and People’s Choice award for her watercolors of South African orchids. Her painting of Disa woodii appears in ASBA’s 27th Annual International, and is featured on the cover of the September issue of The Botanical Artist.