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Mayumi Hashi, GM, SBA, CPGFS Mayumi Hashi started Botanical Illustration in September 1996 at the Bromley Adult Education College where she now teaches the subject. She exhibited one of her first paintings of Fuchsia in colour pencils at the RHS show in February 1997 as a group entry of the Bromley Adult Education College which was awarded a Silver-Gilt Lindley Medal and is now in the RHS Lindley Library.

Since then she was awarded a Silver-Gilt Medal at the RHS show in January 2003 for watercolour paintings of Orchids and a Silver Medal in January 2005 for watercolour paintings of the Encyclia species.

She was then awarded a Gold Medal at the RHS International Orchid Show in September 2005 and she was the only one Gold Medalist at the show. She was also awarded a Silver Medal at the Gardening Scotland Show in Edinburgh, under the auspices of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in June 2006.

In May 2006, she became the first awardeee of the RHS Dawn Jolliffe Botanical Art Bursary and went to Peru to draw, paint and take photographs of orchids there for two weeks.

Mayumi Hashi's work has been selected for inclusion in The Highgrove Florilegium. This is presently being created under the umbrella of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation and will celebrate and record in a permanent way the Flora in the garden at Highgrove.

She was awarded the second Gold Medal at the RHS London Show in November 2007.

Honour(s)/Award(s)

• Gold Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, November, 2007
• Gold Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, September, 2005
• Silver-Gilt Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, 2008
• Silver-Gilt Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, 2003
• Silver-Gilt Medal (Group Entry), Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1997
• Silver Medal, Royal Horticultural Society, London, 2005
• Silver Medal, Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, 2006
• The Dawn Jollife Botanical Art Bursary Award from the RHS, May 2006

Memberships

• Orchid Society of Great Britain 2000-Present
• Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society 2006-Present
• Society of Botanical Artists 2006-Present
• American Society of Botanical Artists 2008-Present