Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿

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British Palaeobotanist, palaeobotanical illustrator and consultant, currently researching Mesozoic plants. 🌿Commissions and consulting open!🌿 BSc, MRes, PGR Student at OU (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 patreon.com/JulianneKiely https://palaeoflora.blogspot.com/

Me next to my photography set up smiling
A selfie of m with my head tilted back and a rainbow crossing over one of my eyes.
A black background with a plant recon on the right and logos in the bottom left. Writing in white reads: European paleobotany and palynology conference 2026. 20th to 25th September 2026 Symposium Plant Paleoart: perspectives and promises Julianne Kiely and Mario Coiro Abstract submission deadline 31st May!
Me and my partner cheers-ing infornt of my artwork.
A screenshot showing the first page of their paper.
A photo of me looking hPpy standing next to my artwork.
A black background with a plant recon on the right and logos in the bottom left. Writing in white reads: European paleobotany and palynology conference 2026. 20th to 25th September 2026 Symposium Plant Paleoart: perspectives and promises Julianne Kiely and Mario Coiro Abstract submissions welcome.
A portrait page with a full restored branch onto the left. It has 6 palm like leaves at the end of one branch, hiding a cone, with a second mature cone below it. On the top right is a male floral organ, which is start shaped, and in the bottom right is a cut-way of the female cone showing its development.
A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.
Lime green slide with shadows of Ginkgo leaves on it with the following text: Friday 13th @ 6 pm UK time! The problem with plants. Why restoring extinct plants is difficult for palaeoartists. By Julianne Zelda Kiely (she/her) Online!!!
A bad carnotaurus model in an indoor gold course.
A small feathery dinosaur sitting on a branch with a giant butterfly-like lacewing in its mouth. The lacewing has a broken wing and the dinosaur is podgie!!!!
A diagram of 4 pterosaurs in overhead view, with them in lateral view lined up at the bottom.
An identification sheet for Ginkgoites dichotoma, with leaves at the top. A leaf cluster bottom left and a tree bottom right.
A fact file of Tianyulong with a drawing oc it in the centre, surrounded by facts and labels, with a time scale on the right.
An infographic of heterodontosaurus, with a lateral view I the centre surrounded by labels, and a close up of the head on the right, next to a geological time scale
A second art v artists post with different selections of pictures
An art v artist with a square picture of me in the centre with 8 pictures of my art surrounding me.
Selfie of me looking to the left, in a tea shop with a neutral expression, showing off my makeup, which was black lipstick and black eyeliner with white accents. I'm wearing a cocker, black leather jacket and a wide brimmed black hat, and my hair is a dark mauve brown.
Selfie of me in the office with my hair down covering one half of my face and I'm looking upwards slightly. I'm wearing a little bit of eye makeup which, if you zoom in on it, looks very rushed (because it was). I'm also wearing a scarf and have two loop earings in my left ear, which has hair tucked behind it.
a figure showing a life restoration of an adult oxroadia, which has many sinuous green stem branching across the ground, and two smaller diagrams of a juvenile plant and a close up of the rooting system.
The poster for the Marsh Palaeoart Award IT reads: marsh palaeoart award this award recognises talent in the depiction of fossil fauna and flora from the british isles winning prize: £500 + 1 year PalSoc membership art can be in any medium judging panel of palaeoartists and scientists, incl. last years's winner, MAtt Humpage submissions open:20th October, 2025 submissions close: 25th November, 2025 for full details and entry requirements visit: www.palaeosoc.org this award is supported by the Marsh charitable Trust
A PowerPoint title slide with the words The Problem with Plants, Why restoring extinct plants is difficult for palaeoartists.
A close up of the canopy of a plant with several thin stems ending on clusters of long serrated interlocking leaves.
A drawing of a cockroach crawing over moss
A brown butterfly or moth-like insect with an eyes pot on its wing sitting on a yellow flower like cone.
A Ginkgo leaf of a microscope being back-lit.
A white and grey and black pigeon with grey wings on its feet which splay out flat against the floor it's standing on.
A mottled grey and brown fluffy pterosaur seen in overheaad view, with its left twing and leg outstretched as if in flight, and it's right wing and leg tucked up as if at rest. The patterning in its body and wings looks like Ginkgo bark and its incredibly fluffy.
A pen sketch of a dead Darwinopterus with its wings partially folded and its head and tail curved up and back over its body.
A freshly dead darwinopterus corpse with a cream and brown body, and a blue headrest and tail. It's wings are folded partially and it's hard and tail are pulled up back. This position is based on the idea of it falling through the waters of a lake, or settled at the bottom with some of it's buoyancy keeping parts of it afloat.
Me standing in front of a poster by Dr Emily Swaby, which my artwork of an ancient dragonfly figured.
A black pen drawings of a bouquet of prehistoric plants. There are lots of leaves and stems and it's kind of a mess. On the front of the wrapping of the bouquet is a cross section through sediments with some fossil blocks in it, and in the top right of the wrapping is a pencil, a magnifying glass and a fossil plant.
A cartoon sinosauropteryx holding a ginkgonstick with a bi flag attached to it. The background is also coloured like the bi flag.
a small brown dinosaur with a very fluffy round body and a long skinny tail with a tuft at the end jumping off a broken off ginkgo branch, splinters of wood fly through the air behind it.
The back of a brown rat with streaks of iridescent blue and green on some hairs
A square image with the head, neck body and wing of anchiornis visible. Is is a long thick necked bird with a grey body and ginger patches on its head and upper arm. The wing is made of many feather layers which are white with black tips.
Fuzzed out image with the words An assortment of Jurassic Goobers on it.
A square image with a pale off white background with many leaves, trees, branches, fruiting bodies and animals scattered across it!
A close up of my pin badge jacket, which white denim with a pink collar. On the colar are various badges including a pale pink badge with DAVE Hone's face on it.
Nanginganthus then and now. A picture on the left of a drawing I did at the time based on the initial interpretation. On the right is a new restoration based on a more correct conifer cone interpretation.
A diagram showing a prototaxites with explanatory text
Geological maps in dark browns and blues
A photo of prints and stickers arranged on a green background
Me standing behind my stall.
Stickers and badges all packed up
The Jurassic Park logo with a plant silhouette and the word palaeobotanist on a badge being held in for the of some Ginkgo leaves
An iridescent baby ammonite badge
6 still Kersey on a sheet with a hand for scale, the stickers are the Jurassic park logo with plant silhouettes and the word Palaeobotanist on them.
An iridescent sticker of Wulong
Selfie of me nect to the plant table
A diagram showing the growth of a Ginkgo biloba long shoot with various stages illustrated in a simplified slightly stylised manner.
A photos of a description with a screen, keyboard and book open in front. On the screen is an OLD German scientific paper.
Rough drawing showing the feather like appendages overlapping with different edges showing.
Rough diagram showing a non overlapping row, an asymmetrical overlapping row and a chevron shaped interlocking row which would account of the consistent anterior edge overlapping often depicted regardless of the side viewed.
A photo of the front cover, which has a theropod and an armoured dinosaur fighting in the dust.
me, taking a selfie, smiling at the viewer, with a tropical pond in the background within a glasshouse
A little red ammonite with a spikes shell. Slightly cartoon with bold black linework