artist biography

Emma Rose Fryer is a botanist and self-taught artist who primarily illustrates California native plants, fungi, and lichens. Born and raised in California, she works mainly in gouache and ink, pulling inspiration from the geometry and form of plant morphology, and from her botanical education. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Botany at Humboldt State University, her master’s at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo working with desert annual wildflowers of the San Joaquin Desert, and will soon begin a Ph.D. working on forest regeneration ecology. While a professional botanist, she has worked as an artist throughout her career to try to inspire people to appreciate and see plants in a new light. Through her work, she hopes to help others appreciate the exquisite form and remarkable diversity of plant life around them.

Learn more about her work at: emmarosefryer.com