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The local chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas will hear botanical illustrator, Lotus McElfish, share her adventurous journey of finding endangered plants and creating their portraits on March 13 at 1pm in the Marble Falls Library meeting room. She expresses appreciation for the people who work at saving these plants and will focus on the watercolors of the special species which are part of her Hill Country Project. She will discuss her procedures, including sketches, to provide identification and documentation of the plants. Lotus will also display and sign her endangered and native plant portraits at the chapter’s meeting; 10% of any sales will go to the local NPSOT chapter.

Ms. McElfish is one of the growing community of artists who is dedicated to the contemporary renaissance of botanical art, updating an historically significant art form which played a vital role in documenting the discoveries of early European explorers. She is self-taught and currently is working in graphite and watercolors to illustrate the Rare and Endangered plants of the Texas Hill Country. Lotus has shared her journeys of finding and creating plant portraits in a number of displays or talk/slide shows including the Texas Plant Conservation Conference and the 2006 Annual NPSOT meeting. In May 2009 she was invited to speak at the Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, D.C., where she offered a workshop in graphite pencil techniques as well.

Lotus McElfish was transplanted to Texas in 2004 and lives with her artisan husband at SummerFish Studios in Spring Branch near Canyon Lake. Her work may be viewed at Kirchman Gallery in Johnson City, at the Rockport Center for the Arts, or online at www.LotusMcElfish.com.

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For more information on this meeting or the local NPSOT chapter, call Sue Kersey at 830/596-2488.