Raymond Booth was born in 1929, and won a scholarship to Leeds College of Art at the age of sixteen. His studies were interrupted by two years National Service, mostly spent in Egypt. After leaving college in 1953 it was discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis; however, to his relief, the resulting spell in a sanatorium gave him the freedom to paint. He submitted work for exhibition to the Royal Horticultural Society, where it attracted the attention of a number of distinguished plantsmen, most particularly that of Dr Harold Fletcher, the director of the RHS's gardens at Wisley. He also exhibited individual works at Walker's Galleries in New Bond Street and later, from 1962, at The Fine Art Society, where he held his first one-man exhibition in 1975. His magnum opus, Japonica Magnifica, produced in conjunction with Don Elick, was published by Alan Sutton Publishing in 1992, and the detailed botanical studies for this work were exhibited in London and Leeds as well as touring a number of museum venues in the United States. Raymond Booth: An Artist's Garden, with text by Peyton Skipwith, was published by Callaway Editions, New York in 2000. Booth's work is included in many public and private collections in Europe, America, Japan and the Middle East, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Ulster Museum, Belfast; The Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh and Leeds City Art Gallery, where he had a major retrospective exhibition in 2002.

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