Ada Zejun Shen
- Illustrator
Inês-Hermione Mulford
- Interdisciplinary Artist
- The Art and Nature Collective
- Edinburgh,
- Scottland
- United Kingdom
- Inês-Hermione Mulford is a realist painter and botanical artist whose work focuses on anatomy, surgery, and bryophyte science. Based in Edinburgh, she holds an M.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. in Painting from Edinburgh College of Art, where she also studied anatomy. Her research on drawing as a method of ethnographic participation, combined with time shadowing surgeons and working from cadavers, inspired her surgical paintings, which explore surgical craft and patient–robot relationships. Her botanical work reflects a long-standing interest in bryophytes (mosses, lichens, liverworts, and hornworts) and their often overlooked role in biodiversity. Through fieldwork, photography, and studio observation, she produces detailed macro-landscape drawings and paintings that reveal the complexity of these plant communities. She is the project artist for the Body Voyager permanent gallery at Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh and has exhibited in the Society of Botanical Artists’ Plantae exhibition and the 2025 More Than Human show at Custom House Gallery. Her awards include the Society of Botanical Artists’ “Making a Mark” Award (2022) and the John Byrne Award (2022). As founder and director of the Art & Nature Collective, Inês-Hermione emphasizes cross-disciplinary approaches that deepen understanding of the natural world and humanity’s role within it.
- ✧₊⁺ Featured Project
- Sculptors at Work
- An oil painting depicting the re-sculpting of bone during full cranial reconstruction, highlighting the collaboration, skill, and transformative union of surgeon’s hands and patient’s anatomy.
Édimbourg, Écosse, Royaume-Uni
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