Sally Crosthwaite is a member of The Society of Botanical Artists. She paints in watercolours and has exhibited extensively here and abroad. Her work has been featured in a number of books and has been reproduced on porcelain. Her paintings have been acquired by The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in America. She was awarded a Gold Medal by The Royal Horticultural Society in 2001 for her paintings of plants in the Iris family.