Pauleen Trim
Pauleen Trim HS GM SBA Fellow
Pauleen is a Botanical Artist who lives and works in rural Dorset. On retirement after 25 years lecturing in Art, Design, Textiles, Theatre and Media Make-Up and Costume at the Bournemouth College, she took a course in Botanical painting and fell in love with painting nature.
She is a Fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists and is a Tutor and Assessor on their Distance Learning Diploma Course. She is also a member of the Association of Botanical Artists and an Artist member of the Hilliard Miniature Society and sits on the Council and the selection panel for their annual exhibitions.
She has been awarded the Dorset Arts Russell Trophy for Botanical Painting six times. She has two group RHS Silver medals and in 2021 was awarded an RHS Gold medal for her individual exhibit on Native British Trees, her painting Fraxinus excelsior won her Best Botanical Painting in Show and is now housed in the RHS Lindley Library archive. In 2025 she was awarded her second RHS Gold medal for painting, also in 2025, she was invited to travel to Romania to illustrate for a Florilegium project at the Transylvanian School of Botanical Art.
She exhibits both Nationally and Internationally, and teaches and demonstrates Botanical and miniature painting techniques.