Honor Marks grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and remembers slogging through the marshes of the lowcountry as a child searching for rare wildflowers with her family. Today, she continues the journey through her artwork. Drawing her inspiration from writers Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, and Madeleine L’Engle and a host of botanical and natural history painters, Honor “transforms meticulous field study into bold, yet sensitive paintings of some of our most beautiful and rare botanical specimens,” according to Burton Moore of the Audubon Gallery in Charleston.