Mindy Lighthipe- Botanical Artist and Natural Science Illustrator

has relocated from Warren, NJ to   Gainesville, Florida in May 2012.  In 2009 she received the Silver Medal at the Royal Horticultural Society in London England for her Botanical and Butterfly “Symbiosis” series which depicts the life cycles of both the butterfly and the host plant that is used by the butterfly in its larval stage. In 2004 Mindy and her partner Nancy Richmond opened Artistic Adventure Tours.  Each year they travel with a group to exotic places to capture nature in sketches, paintings and photographs. They have traveled to the Galapagos Islands, Belize, Guatemala, France, Italy and Costa Rica. February 1-10, 2012 we are featuring an art/photography tour to Costa Rica.