Hi, I’m Wren Allen. Welcome to New Mexico Wildflowers!

I moved to New Mexico in late 2012, but my love affair with the Land of Enchantment began in 1983, when my husband and I visited here on our first anniversary. The landscape and culture of this beautiful region captured our hearts immediately. We were able to make Santa Fe our home after 30 years of travel for my husband’s career.

As an artist and graphic designer, I tried my creative hand in many different modes of expression. In 2008, while living in Rio de Janeiro for one of my husband’s job assignments, I was fortunate enough to join a week’s botanical art sabbatical in the Amazon, led by distinguished botanical illustrator and Margaret Mee Fellow, Dulce Nascimento. It felt like coming home artistically. In 2015, I began the online Post-graduate Diploma in Botanical Illustration program with the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh, graduating with distinction in 2018. Today I use words and images to tell the story behind the amazing plants and nature of the Desert Southwest.

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