Rhona Brown
Rhona Brown, was a South African botanical artist and housewife.
She was educated at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and UNISA graduating with a B.A. in Fine Arts and with a National Art Teachers Certificate. She worked at the in Pretoria for two spells - 1944-46 and 1965–69 and taught sporadically for eight years. She completed some 100 plates for the Flowering Plants of Africa and black-and-white illustrations for Bothalia and Flora of Southern Africa. She provided about half of all illustrations for Palmer & Pitman's Trees of Southern Africa and all the illustrations for Eve Palmer's Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa.
She married Comdt. H.T. Collett on 2 March 1946.Publications
- 1972 Trees of Southern Africa by Eve Palmer & Norah Pitman, illustrated By Rhona Collett
- 1977 A Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa by Eve Palmer, illustrated By Rhona Collett
- Calligraphy Teachers Manual - Rhona Collett et al.
