Gustavo Marigo

Brazil

Born 1981

Gustavo Banhara Marigo started painting wildlife very young and graduated in design. One of his artworks in the Shirley Sherwood Collection was painted when he was just 16 years old. He won the first prize in the botanical painting contest under the Margaret Mee Foundation in 2000 and went on to specialize in scientific botanical illustration at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, through the Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme in 2015. Gustavo has worked for biologists and editors to illustrate scientific articles and books and he's exhibited internationally. In 2016 he won the 2nd prize in the Margaret Flockton Award for Scientific Botanical Illustration, Sydney, Australia. He featured in the Worldwide Botanical Art Exibition in Curitiba, Brazil, with three illustrations in May 2018. Gustavo now teaches workshops at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro as well as courses and private lessons.