Artist Finds Her Paradise at the Botanic Garden
Northbrook artist Heeyoung Kim exhibits her renderings of native plants at the Smithsonian Institute.
Heeyoung Kim began taking art classes at the Chicago Botanic Garden just seven years ago. Today, her watercolor painting of the rare, red Royal Catchfly flower hangs in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., as part of the traveling exhibit Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World. The Northbrook resident's painting was chosen from among 200 submissions worldwide for the show, which features drawings and paintings of endangered species. It originated at the Missouri Botanic Garden and then was here at the Chicago Botanic Garden before traveling on to New York and then the Smithsonian. Next June, Kim's painting will cross the ocean along with the rest of the exhibit to hang on display in Kew Garden, the Royal …
