Rodella Anne Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist.
[1] Purves was born in 1945 in Paisley, Scotland, and two years later moved to Edinburgh with her family, where she attended St. Margaret's School.
[1] She spent a year in New Zealand, working for the government's Department of Industry, before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Botanic Garden.
Her work was exhibited around the world, in the United States, Ireland, Japan and Germany, with the Queen's Royal Botanist describing her as one of Britain's leading artists.
[3] Purves died on 17 January 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland.