found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Sept. 20, 2019(Marjorie Blamey, who has died aged 101, was Britain's most prolific illustrator of wild flowers. Marjorie Netta Blamey, botanical illustrator, born 13 March 1918; died 8 September 2019. She was born to British parents in Talawakelle, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where her father, Arthur Day, worked as a doctor. The family returned to the UK in 1921 and settled in Sandown on the Isle of Wight. In 1934 she won a scholarship to attend Rada and took part in several films at the Elstree Studios; married Philip Blamey in 1941. It was not until she was in her late 40s that Marjorie rediscovered her childhood love of flower painting. She took up botanical illustration full-time. Marjorie herself wrote a series of books on flower painting, and also illustrated nature books for the children's author David Stephen)