Wendy Felicité Walsh (9 April 1915 – 3 March 2014) was an artist born in Cumbria who lived and worked in Ireland and was a prolific botanical illustrator.
She was not permitted to attend art school, but studied privately under the animal painters Cecil Aldin and Arminell Morshead.
During that time she met her future husband, and in 1941 she married John Mainwaring Walsh, then a Major, ultimately a lieutenant colonel in the British Army.
After following her husband around the world on various military postings, including in Japan (where she studied Chinese ink techniques) and Washington, D.C., she moved in 1958, with her husband and three children (daughters Lesley and Anna and son Michael), to Lusk, Ireland, as John Walsh had retired from the British Army to become Agent of Trinity College Dublin.
She remained an amateur painter until the mid-1970s, when, following a visit to the Gilbert Islands, she was commissioned to design floral stamps, starting her career as a professional artist at the age of 60.