For thousands of years orchids have been valued for their ornamental appeal. But many species have become a victim of their own beauty, and are now a serious conservation concern. In this project we aim to highlight the decline in many species in the wild,
This is the main point of these exhibitions. So our idea was to make a survey with the people who visited the exhibition, mostly ‘yes or no’ questions, like ‘Are they buying any wild orchids?’ or some questions about ‘Was this exhibition effective to disseminate
We are ready to start! To make this happen and easily going, we come up with a plan. Painting will travel on land, we will fly =) So, we framed all the paintings, 41 illustrations total, packed and placed them in a car with great deal
With a great force of Richard Corlett, we come up with this new team. Prof. Gao, who is the head of the orchid team, suggested one of his master student, Song, to work on this project, doing all the surveys and the research as her
Before we have started our exhibition marathon, We have designed and publish this little booklet. The main idea of this booklet was disseminate the idea in a wider audience, so that people can buy our booklet, and give to the others, so does the knowledge
This was the 10th and the final painting I did for this project. Dendrobium was the missing genus for my series of paintings, and I was really hoping to catch its flowering time. So in May, Dendrobium fimbriatum was full blossoming, as well as some
Here I am, after a year later, back to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) to work on my final painting for the exhibition, and actually start our exhibition marathon. Nothing has changed here since last year, almost everything was same, except some nice people has joined
Sophie Willams. She was the core and the center of the project. We have met years ago in Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. She is an incredible educator, and works a lot about conservation subjects. When I had the idea of travelling to China, she immediately contacted me
During my visit to XTBG, there was a meeting on biodiversity conservation. It was about illegal wildlife trade in South West Asia. Prince William also visited XTBG for that time, give a talk at the meeting on biodiversity protection in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden For the same
All the species I will paint for this project is collected from the nursery of the garden. XTBG is a big botanical garden, so you might need to take small electric busses, or have a long walk. Generally I do my scientific illustration in the