Erika's prints currently on exhibit:

Permanent part of the new Art & Nature Center of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA

Permanent part of "Natural Mysteries" exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science in Boston, MA

Seaweeds, ferns & spring flowers at Cutler School Lobby Art Gallery in Hamilton, MA

Assorted woody plants at Town Hall (2nd floor), Ipswich, MA


CATALOG (by plant name) | CATALOG (by family) | NOTECARDS
NEW ADDITIONS TO CATALOG

See also Erika Sonder's Suspended Animations.    

   The images below are a small sample of the specimens available. Click on any image to see a larger version. The images here give only the smallest hint of the exquisite detail contained in the actual reproductions. See the CATALOG for a complete list of species available, prices and for many more illustrations.

See NOTECARDS created using Erika's method.

  Erika Sonder is a field biologist, naturalist and nature artist. Erika has a master's degree in environmental studies from Antioch New England Graduate School and a bachelor's degree in biology from Tufts University. She gives workshops demonstrating the techniques of specimen collection, plant pressing and mounting used for the preparation of scientific herbarium specimens. She is Assistant Curator of Vascular Plants for the New England Botanical Club herbarium at Harvard University. The initiation of her Portable Herbarium business has been the ideal marriage of art and science. In addition to their value as objects of beauty her prints of herbarium specimens are used as tools in education, displays in nature centers and in museums to introduce the biodiversity of New England flora to the general public.

  Erika is the mother of five grown children and resides in Ipswich, Mass. Among her goals are the preservation of open space and the promotion of interest in nature.

For more information contact Erika at:

erika@portableherbarium.com