STEPHEN CAINE PALAEOBOTANICAL ARTIST.
 Pen & Ink illustration of Devonian Plant, Ventarura lyonii. A model also made by Stephen can be seen on display in Aberdeen University. |
Stephen has worked for museums and universities for around thirty years and still carries on this work as a natural history conservator and preparator complimenting his main interest and specialization in palaeobotanical art work. At present he is working on a body of work for a future exhibition of fossil leaves from the Tertiary Period which are housed in the National Museum of Scotland. These were collected from Spitsbergen in the late 1800s and early 1900s by the explorer Bruce. The illustrations of the Tertiary Period fossil leaves will go on display at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh starting in May 2009, from TUES 5 MAY — FRI 26 JUNE . Current main project Carboniferous Flora for a university in Georgia USA. A commission to recreate a Cretaceous
Orchid, being advised by a Palaeobotanist from Kew Gardens and
the Depto Botânica - Instituto de Biociências UFRGS
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - RS Brazil Contact Telephone
44 (0)1346 561408 mobile 07531 397369 OTHER LINKS: International Organisation of Palaeobotany The Rhynie Chert Flora Palaeobotany research group University of Münster Links for Palaeobotanists |
 Stephen sitting in his garden 2008 |
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