Rhona Brown

Rhona Brown (born 1920, Pretoria) is a South African botanical artist and housewife.

She was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A.(Hons.) in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate. She worked at the [http://www.sanbi.org/ Botanical Research Institute] in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965-69 and taught sporadically for eight years. She completed some 100 plates for the "Flowering Plants of Africa" and black-and-white illustrations for "Bothalia" and "Flora of Southern Africa". She provided about half of all illustrations for Palmer & Pitman's "Trees of Southern Africa" and all the illustrations for Eve Palmer's "Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa".

She married Comdt. H.T. Collett on 2 March 1946.

Publications

*1972 "Trees of Southern Africa" by Eve Palmer & Norah Pitman, illustrated By Rhona Collett (3 vols.) ISBN: 0869610333
*1977 "A Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa"by Eve Palmer, illustrated By Rhona Collett (William Collins & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 0002193396
*Calligraphy Teachers Manual - Rhona Collett et al.