Kerri Weller, www.kerriweller.ca

Trained as a medical illustrator and graphic designer, Kerri enjoyed a previous career as an Exhibits Graphic Designer with the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada. Her parents were avid gardeners who instilled a passion for all things botanical.

Today, Kerri is an internationally recognized botanical artist. Her work is in the collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, has been published in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine and juried into the international art exhibitions of ASBA, Art Renewal Centre and Artists for Conservation. She has designed commemorative WWI gold and silver coins for the Royal Canadian Mint.

Kerri gives generously of her time to the development of botanical art and artists in Canada, and in the national capital region where she lives. As Canada's Chair of ASBA's 2018 Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition, Kerri led a countrywide team to create Canada's exhibition, Art of the Plant, viewed by over 21,000 visitors at the Canadian Museum of Nature. She has taught botanical art classes at many venues including the Ottawa School of Art, Nepean Visual Arts Centre and at the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 2012, Kerri formed the Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists.

Kerri is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto's Art as Applied to Medicine program.