Emily Margaret Wood (1865 – 1907) was an English botany teacher and painter of scientific illustrations and Arts and Crafts ceramics.
Born 23 August 1865 in Calcutta, India, she moved to England in 1871. [1] [2] In 1903 she was working as a botany teacher at the Liscard School of Science and Art. [3]
Serving as secretary and botanical referee of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club for twenty years, [2] her botanical contributions included collecting and publishing on plants of Denbighshire, [4] illustrating Green’s Flora of the Liverpool District, revising George Atkinson’s First Studies of Plant Life for a British audience, [5] and making over 800 plant drawings. [6] [7] She also led botanical expeditions and gave free lectures at Liverpool's Free Public Library. [8]
From the late 1890s she was commissioned as a ceramics painter by Sir William Forwood for the Della Robbia Pottery, part of the Arts and Crafts movement's reaction against mass-production. [9] She painted Art Nouveau-influenced vases and tiles with botanical and classical scenes, including executing a design by Ford Madox Brown, [10] and also worked as a book-keeper for the project. [11]
Emily Margaret Wood (1865 – 1907) was an English botany teacher and painter of scientific illustrations and Arts and Crafts ceramics.
Born 23 August 1865 in Calcutta, India, she moved to England in 1871. [1] [2] In 1903 she was working as a botany teacher at the Liscard School of Science and Art. [3]
Serving as secretary and botanical referee of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club for twenty years, [2] her botanical contributions included collecting and publishing on plants of Denbighshire, [4] illustrating Green’s Flora of the Liverpool District, revising George Atkinson’s First Studies of Plant Life for a British audience, [5] and making over 800 plant drawings. [6] [7] She also led botanical expeditions and gave free lectures at Liverpool's Free Public Library. [8]
From the late 1890s she was commissioned as a ceramics painter by Sir William Forwood for the Della Robbia Pottery, part of the Arts and Crafts movement's reaction against mass-production. [9] She painted Art Nouveau-influenced vases and tiles with botanical and classical scenes, including executing a design by Ford Madox Brown, [10] and also worked as a book-keeper for the project. [11]