Kathryn Garner

@kathryngarner.co.uk

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I'm an illustrator fascinated by cell biology and a scientist who likes to draw | bioart sciart https://kathryngarner.co.uk/

Six guitar picks with similar Sea Wasp jellyfish design. Arranged on a black card with scribbly writing that says 'Deadly Tangle'. The guitar picks are blue, purple, pink, white, glow-in-the-dark, and black. Graph paper sits at the back.
Sketch of the ribbon structure of haemoglobin (hemoglobin). Coils and star-like spaces are emerging. Red biro on lined paper.
Drawing of a human heart in blue and red biro, and watercolour. The walls of the right atrium and ventricle have been removed so that the openings can be seen inside.
Teaching model of the human heart on a stand
Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) circular illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near the bell.
Front, back and side views of a pair of Giant Siphonophore Gym Leggings. Turquoise or teal with water marks from watercolour and lines from coloured charcoal pencil colouring. Yellow blobs in chains down the backs of the thighs and running round the calfves are the zooids.
Sea Wasp jellyfish with white tentacles and white 'deadly tangle' lettering in cursive. Purple and blue felt-tip pen pick out the 'detail' in the jellyfish body. The white of the jelly and lettering are the white of the paper - these are made in the negative space by black felt-tip, fine liner and marker pen (as each ran out!) around the components of the image and for the black background.
A silent cricket drawn with a scratchy style in black ink.
An adult locust with pale brown and yellow legs, head and abdomen. Pale grey-blue wings with pencil detail.
Left: A Plumed Scorpionfish, brown, orange and red. The fish has a round red eye and plumes above. It has venom-filled spikes. Right: A Narrow-lined Pufferfish has been drawn with colours that indicate the amount of toxin in each part of the fish, with red being the highest, yellow the lowest, and green ‘not detected’. Media for both: watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.
The bell of this Japanese Sea Nettle is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.
Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) like a knotted ball of orange string or perhaps a burning hot sun, with thin tentacles streaming off to the left. Against a very dark blue/brown ocean.
A moon jellyfish; a blue oval with four white bubble-like structures within it, bobbing in a turquoise sea.
A siphonophore in a heavily textured turquoise sea. A long tangly siphosome with yellow lozenge-shaped zooids along its length.
Crystal jelly looks like a crystal chandelier against a midnight blue sea.
A Barrel jellyfish, drawn horizontally with its hood or bell on the right, edged by a row of purple squares, and tentacles extending to the left. Blues above and greens below form the background of the drawing.
Five death cap mushrooms in a row are yellow-green on a backdrop of green, ochre, purple, pink and blue. A blue antibody is drawn in the top right referencing that the amanitin toxin from this deadly mushroom has been in clinically trials attached to an antibody. Watercolour, coloured charcoal pencil and biro on paper.
Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near near the bell.
A Common Irukandji, almost transparent in its surroundings. Its bell has orange spots and its tentacles are long, seemingly tangled together and stripy. The overall colour of the ocean is metallic brown - the colour of rusty iron.
Four circular fluorescent keychain designs, clockwise from top left: - Crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) (blue) - Green fluorescent protein (green) - Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) (pink) - Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) (orange)
Atolla jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei) like a knotted ball of orange string or perhaps a burning hot sun, with thin tentacles streaming off to the left. Against a very dark blue/brown ocean.
Six guitar picks with Sea Wasp designs, each a different thicknes and colour. Clockwise from top left: white 0.46mm, pink 0.65mm, purple 0.80mm, black 1.35mm, glow-in-the-dark 1.14mm, blue 1.0mm
Beasts & Botanicals promo art by Jess aka Loadofolbobbins. When you back 2 or more projects you receive a free digital zine containing contributions from all of the campaigns. It contains fun facts, art, puzzles.
A moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita), a blue oval with white detail bobbing in a turquoise sea.
Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near near the bell.
A siphonophore in a heavily textured sea - watercolour, coloured charcoal pencil and paper collage. Stringy and tentacle-y!
Made using pencil, watercolour and charcoal pencil on paper – a textile cone snail (Conus textile) with disulphide bond structures worked into the triangular pattern on its shell.
Four images in a square. Crystal jelly drawn in blue, shown as a fluorescent keyring, with (top left) and without (top right) UV light. The original drawing in watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil is bottom left. A drawing of green fluorescent protein as a ribbon structure is bottom right.
Drawing of Crystal jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) printed onto a blue fluorescent acrylic keychain glowing blue in UV light
Aequorea victoria (crystal jelly), looks like a crystal chandelier against a midnight blue sea. Watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.
The artist wearing a black top and purple cardigan. There is an Organoid and an Organ-On-A-Chip sticker on her top. White lanyard around her neck reads Hub Organoids.
4 Engulfed Castle designs (bacteria X castle hybrids): Morax-kidw-ell-y (Moraxella catarrhalis X Kidwelly Castle) S. ep-aydon-idis (Staphylococcus epidermidis X Aydon Castle) S. tintag-enes (Streptococcus pyogenes X Tntagel Castle) E. coli-narfon (Escherichia coli X Caenarfon Castle)
Watercolour drawings of a medieval costume (a dress), an English Heritage guidebook, a Scottish sword and shield, and a white queen chess piece.
Hand-drawn coloured structures of antibiotics: vancomycin, augmentin, mupirocin, and tetracycline
Drawings of 4 different colonies of bacteria on a teal background. Each has one cell which looks more like an aerial view of a castle. The text gives hybrid, made-up names to the bacteria. Text: Engulfed Castle Pins (title) Morax-kidw-ell-y (Moraxella catarrhalis X Kidwelly Castle) S. ep-aydon-idis (Staphylococcus epidermidis X Aydon Castle) S. tintag-enes (Streptococcus pyogenes X Tntagel Castle) E. coli-narfon (Escherichia coli X Caenarfon Castle)
Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.
Drawings of 4 different colonies of bacteria on a teal background. Each has one cell which looks more like an aerial view of a castle. The text gives hybrid, made-up names to the bacteria. Text: Engulfed Castle Pins (title) Morax-kidw-ell-y (Moraxella catarrhalis X Kidwelly Castle) S. ep-aydon-idis (Staphylococcus epidermidis X Aydon Castle) S. tintag-enes (Streptococcus pyogenes X Tntagel Castle) E. coli-narfon (Escherichia coli X Caenarfon Castle)
Diplococci bacteria Moraxella catarrhalis on a blood red background. Two cells, almost kidney-shaped, joined at their flatter sides. The texture in the right-hand cell resembles a castle, aerial view (Kidwelly Castle, Wales, UK).
Plan of Clifford's Tower in York, UK. Thick grey walls like a four-leaf clover only with the individual leaves less well defined. 4 spiral staircases like curled millipedes in the walls. Walkways and staircases criss-cross through the tower.
Green lobed bacterial cell with fins like a heating grill along its edges. Inside are orange and brown shapes resembling an eye, a small tent and a sleeping bag.
Pale blue splodges are cell nuclei. Other brown splodges. Addition of part of the spring-like part of a cafetiere plunger neatly painted gives a focal structure the shape of a kidney or an ear.
Pencil and watercolour on paper. Blue sea around an island, on which is Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK. Lots of hatching / parallel lines indicate the island's steep, rocky slopes.
Setaceous Hebrew Character moth on a background of plant cells as seen under a microscope. The cells are drawn with green biro and could be an aerial view of a city.
Sunrise the colour of hot red fire behind wintery trees and bushes.
Acrylic paint on paper, A2 size. Blue splodges (cell nuclei), burnt sienna and grey-brown against a pale blue background. Circles on the right are from an aerial view of water treatment plant.
Drawing of a mouse with pale brown fur. She is standing up on her hind legs holding the top of a white queen chess piece, which is angled towards her. Illustration executed in watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper.
An illustration of approximately 13 spheroids, small floating aggregates of cells. Simple line drawings with watercolour in greyscale.
Aedes aegypti mosquito drawn in blue biro against a pale pink and orange watercolour background - human flesh.
Mycoplasma bacterial cell partly painted as a diagram, partly from a microscope image, and partly as a mash-up with a map of the village I grew up in. Blue, brown and yellow ocre acrylic on paper.
My drawing of the negative spaces within one of the models of insulin made by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Most of the shapes are khaki-coloured, but several are golden and another grey.
Orange and black hooded pitohui against a jungle of nerve cells. The poison carried by this bird is a neurotoxin. Dark blue neurons against a yellow-orange background with blue dots. Green geometric shapes are seen in the top left quadrant, reminiscent of the light coming down through leaves.
Pigeon dressed up as a Christmas tree pin on the label of a grey-blue corduroy jacket. River Thames and the city of London in the background.
Made using pencil, watercolour and charcoal pencil on paper – a textile cone snail (Conus textile) with disulphide bond structures worked into the triangular pattern on its shell.
Teaching model of a leaf of a dicotyledon. Paint is peeling and the plaster is showing in places. The cells are clear and stomata can be seen on the lower side in pink. The top and bottom cell layers are pale grey, whereas the cells in the middle are green.
Wooden Organoid Holiday Decoration hanging in a fir tree. The decoration has been printed from a painting of a kidney organoid, worked into with elements of an oil rig - particularly cranes make the organoid spiky - and platforms, windows.
Complete 1000 piece puzzle of coloured moths around a lightbulb
A wooden Organoid Holiday Decoration held up by a hand from its bottom left corner. The decoration has been printed from a painting of a kidney organoid, worked into with elements of an oil rig - particularly cranes make the organoid spiky - and platforms, windows.
Drawing of a plan of Chepstow Castle. Grey-purple watercolour fills the spaces between the walls, which are uncoloured paper (white).
Orange and black Hooded Pitohui against a jungle of nerve cells. Featured on a stack of stickers.
Little aggregations of cells called spheroids. Drawn in black biro and shown here as a collection of identical small stickers with a brown paper background.