Susanne Choinowski Gaschen

Susanne Choinowski Gaschen

1964 born in Switzerland.

During my work as a family doctor and consultant at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Bern, I started 2002 the training to become a botanical illustrator, first at the English gardening school in London, Kew Gardens and several courses in South Africa, Cornwall, and West Dean College. Now this year I finished the Diploma at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh.

Title of the Project:

Medicinal Plants

About the Project:

Within the scope of my medical activity as a general practitioner with the subtitle psychosomatic/psychosocial medicine, I often need medication that is based on herbs. There are several Swiss companies for evidence-based phytotherapy. They offer a quite wide range of medicines. In this work, I focused on herbs specially for depression or other stress symptoms. From the evidence-based combinations of herbs, I have studied and painted the individual plants. The combination of medicine and art/botanical illustration is exciting and instructive.

Illustrations:
Petasites hybridus, 70 x 50 cm Watercolour on paper, 2022