[1] His work is typically finely honed pastel on a plain grey background.
The combination of draughtsmanship and shadowing give all his work a very strong 3-dimensional quality, whilst also being of extreme beauty.
He was born in Northwich in Cheshire the son of James Frederick Drinkwater (b.1822) and his wife Hannah Mather (b.1823).
[2] Of the 500 or so plant pictures he created between 1903 and 1915, covering the majority of species in north Wales, over 200 were exhibited in the 1912 National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.
In 1908 he married Katherine Rosebery Jay (b.1855) This English biographical article related to medicine is a stub.