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The RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show 2025 will feature a rich variety of subjects including  stunning Japanese cherry blossom, the unusual ‘kangaroo paw’ plants of Australia, and plants used in traditional cosmetics by Korean women. A common theme in this year’s exhibit is plants that have been relied on by humans – whether for beauty, clothing, medicine or fuel. Portfolio photography features a diverse range of plants, gardens and natural habitats with subjects ranging from Tuscan olive trees to the Acacia cyclops of South Africa’s richly biodiverse Cape Floral Kingdom.

All of the art has undergone a meticulous reviewing process by an expert judging panel and assessed on aesthetic appeal, scientific accuracy and technical skill. Once on display, the artists compete for an RHS medal – Gold, Silver-Gilt, and Bronze, as well as a ‘best in show’ award – Best Botanical Artwork, Best Botanical Art Exhibit, Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit, Best Single Image and Judges Special Award.  The public will once again have the opportunity to vote in the People’s Choice award via the RHS website.

The Show contributes to a long legacy of botanical art collecting and display by the RHS, and complements the work of the RHS Lindley Collections, which holds more than 30,000 botanical paintings and heritage photographs. 

The RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show will be open to the public from 13 June – 27 July 2025 at Saatchi Gallery, London. For the first time ever, the exhibition will be free to enter with visitors invited to make a donation to the Gallery as a registered charity. Click here or donate in person at the Gallery. 

The show is supported by UK-based wealth management firm, TrinityBridge. Once known as Close Brothers Asset Management, TrinityBridge have been helping individuals, families, professionals and businesses to make confident financial choices for more than 30 years.

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Saatchi Gallery presents its 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden, Three Coverings, with multi-disciplinary artist Darcey Fleming and garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen. 

Three Coverings include an immersive wall hanging, a chair sculpture, and a conical freestanding structure draped with a large woven sculptural form. A winding gravel path will guide visitors through the garden, with the main sculpture loosely referencing and evoking traditional celebrations connected to the land. In the same way that people would gather around Stonehenge or the maypole, Fleming’s sculptures have a joyful, vibrant magnetism that draws people to them. 

Fleming has worked closely with garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen to craft the setting that her sculptures inhabit. The organic nature of her medium is important to Fleming, as is her frugal and waste-free method of acquiring it. Everything must be locally sourced and naturally occurring within the UK. Thus, her sculptures stand in a sea of wild flowers and soft grasses. 

The garden is supported by HSBC UK. 

Click here to book tickets to RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

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Join us for flower-themed art and activities suitable for children of all ages – including Easter card making, Sensory painting, and Printmaking. Led by Saatchi Gallery’s Learning Team. 

Register for a 30-minute slot below. Places at each workshop are limited – a parent/guardian registered can bring up to two children. You do not need a Flowers ticket to attend, however you can visit the exhibition on the same day by booking a ticket in advance here.

All sessions take place in the Learning Gallery on the Lower Ground, unless otherwise specified.

MONDAY 7 APRIL – EASTER CARD MAKING

Participants will explore using pen, ink and watercolour to create their own Easter Cards inspired by Ēostre, the Goddess of Spring in the style of the traditional art in the first room of Flowers. Click on a time-slot to register your place:

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THURSDAY 10 APRIL – SENSORY PAINTING WORKSHOP

Responding to senses such as smell, sound and touch through painting. In this workshop participants will move away from representation but engage in painting and drawing as a way to connect with their present surroundings. The session will culminate in a giant group collaborative painting on a giant roll of paper. Click on a time-slot to register your place:

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MONDAY 14 APRIL – MARGARET MELLIS DRAWING

This session explores responding the process of Margaret Mellis and why it was significant to her practice. We will experiment with simple techniques like pastel and crayon drawing and how they can be used on accessible materials like envelopes. Click on a time-slot to register your place:

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THURSDAY 17 APRIL – STYROFOAM PRINTMAKING

In this workshop, participants will be taught a simplified printmaking process similar to lino cutting to create beautiful floral prints inspired by Pop artists such as Andy Warhol. The nature of the process means that you will leave here with a plate that you can use to print your design over and over again. Your print could be used as an artwork or on a greeting card for Easter, a birthday or any other occasion! Click on a time-slot to register your place:

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These workshops are free of charge. If you wish to support our charity, we would greatly appreciate a donation so we can continue to make art accessible to all. Click here or donate in person at the Gallery. 

Presented in collaboration with Long & Ryle, The Thread of Colour is a celebration of the life and work of Armenian-American artist Maro Gorky (b. New York 1943).

The exhibition features a selection of important oil paintings spanning her career as an artist from the 1980s to the present day. Subject matter includes Gorky’s family, the Tuscan home she has lived in with her sculptor husband Matthew Spender since the 1960s, and landscapes from the Sienese countryside and beyond. 

It includes two large-scale landscapes, Autumn Vines (2025) and Spring Vines (2025). These ambitious works, only recently completed with the last strokes being added just in time for the show, demonstrate that Maro Gorky, in her eighties, remains as powerful and prolific a painter as she was in her twenties.

An accompanying exhibition Maps of Feelings opens at Long & Ryle from 12 March – 13 May 2025, and features a selection of Gorky’s works on paper, an important element of her artistic practice.

Saatchi Gallery presents Filthy Cute, a solo exhibition by Anne von Freyburg featuring large-scale works that reimagine textile as a medium within the tradition of painting, challenging traditional hierarchies between craft, decoration, and fine art.

Von Freyburg’s works, including two reinterpretations of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Progress of Love series, offer a critical reflection on the clichés of heterosexual romance and societal expectations of women. Through her vibrant, textile paintings, she explores the pressures women face, particularly the expectations of being ‘caretakers’ and ‘pleasers’, while championing self-empowerment, kindness, and the freedom to define one’s own identity.

The exhibition also features works from von Freyburg’s floral series, where she draws inspiration from the 17th-century Dutch Masters’ flower still lifes. These works address themes of what she calls “commodity fetishism” and aim to renew the significance of traditional floral paintings while celebrating the feminine.

Von Freyburg’s floral work also features in Saatchi Gallery’s current major exhibition, FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE, where her use of textiles and bold materials highlights the sensual and visual pleasures of the feminine form and culture.

Liminal Gallery is delighted to present Entangled at Saatchi Gallery. This multidisciplinary exhibition features painting, drawing, ceramics and sculpture by nine contemporary artists, offering nuanced reflections on the human condition and our inextricable relationship with the natural world. 

Through their diverse practices, the artists explore the entanglements between humanity and the environment, addressing themes of interconnectedness, vulnerability, spirituality and coexistence. Their works challenge human exceptionalism, to confront the shared complexities of life and the delicate balance between human desires and ecological realities. 

Entangled examines the ways in which our lived experiences—shaped by culture, history, and emotion—intersect with the broader biosphere. By engaging with questions of responsibility, belonging, and the passage of time, the exhibition reveals the intricate ties that bind us to one another and to the ecosystems we inhabit.

Bringing together nine artists from Liminal Gallery’s roster—Henrietta Armstrong, Anna Blom, Zoe De Caluwé, Abigail Hampsey, Thomas Langley, Louise Frances Smith, Olivia Strange, Maud Whatley, and Mercedes Lucy—the exhibition transforms familiar narratives of nature and the human experience. Entangled highlights the fragile connections that sustain life on Earth.

About Liminal Gallery
Though the smallest bricks-and-mortar contemporary gallery in the UK, Liminal Gallery challenges the status quo, presenting the diverse and resonant voices of today’s artists from across the UK and Ireland. While historically women and minorities have been wildly underrepresented in the art world, we stand as proof that change is happening. Liminal Gallery’s permanent home at 34 Fort Hill, Margate, opened on 1st October 2022 after operating digitally and nomadically since its inception in April 2021. Our second exhibition space, The Cupboard, opened in March 2023 which provides local artists with a 3 month residency to showcase a solo exhibition in a playful and quirky space. Liminal Gallery Podcast was also launched in October 2022, used as a tool to widen access globally to their artists and their practice. 

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