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Catherine Watters is a botanical artist and instructor with nearly 30 years of teaching experience throughout the U.S., France, Italy, and Mexico. She co-developed the Botanical Art Certificate Program at Filoli, in Woodside, CA, where she taught for twenty years.
Her paintings are held in several collections and florilegia, including The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA; The Brooklyn Botanical Garden; The National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kauai; The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; The Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney; The Museum of Natural History in Paris; The Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection; and The Haas Art Collection. Catherine is the co-founder of the Alcatraz Florilegium, the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden Florilegium and the Château de Brécy Florilegium in France.
Catherine’s illustrations appear in numerous international publications, including Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and ‘Botanical Art Techniques, American Society of Botanical Artists’, Timber Press 2021. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and served three terms on the Board of Directors. In 2026, she received the ASBA Service Award for Dedication to Botanical Art.
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