Pauleen Trim

After 25 years teaching art and design at the Bournemouth College, I enrolled on a botanical painting course and fell in love with painting nature. I am an artist member of the Hilliard Society of Miniaturists and also a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists.
Currently I teach part-time on a local botanical art course, I also teach and demonstrate for The South West Society of Botanical Artists and the Hilliard Society. I am a Tutor and Assessor on the Society of Botanical Artists Distance Learning Diploma Course.

Exhibitions include the SBA in London, Madrid and Frankfurt, the SWA, HS, RMS and SWSBA, the Llewellyn Alexander and Saatchi Galleries London, and in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens.

In 2014 I was awarded the SWSBA Standard of Excellence with Distinction, gained a SBA Certificate of Botanical Merit in 2017 and 2019 and have won the Dorset Arts Botanical Painting Trophy in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2024, also the Sue Bell Award for Miniature Painting in 2018.
I was awarded a prestigious RHS Gold Medal 2021 and won best botanical painting in show. One of my paintings is held in the RHS Lindley Library Archives.