Margareta Pertl

Margareta Pertl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and works and lives in Vienna and Dublin. She has been working in botanical illustration since 1997 and has won several awards for her watercolours and ink drawings in Austria and England.

She is a founding member of the society “Wiener Schule der botanischen Illustration” (Vienna school of botanic illustration), and member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the Irish Society of Botanical Artists, the Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft (zoological-botanical society) and the Irish Orchid Society.

Her botanical aquarelles are exhibited in Austrian and international collections.