Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical ...
A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative ...
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Botanical illustrations by their very nature are precise and elegant. Often this type of drawing depicts a plant removed from life, a specimen selected for scientific study or display. Alternatively, ...
Francesca Anderson. Click photo for Anderson’s website. Francesca Anderson spent most of her productive life as a botanical illustrator while she was based in Brooklyn. Indeed, she remains a trustee ...
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...
At the intersection of art and science, lies the realm of botanical illustration. For Suresh Ragavan, a bird artist, who has served as a botanical illustrator at the Botanical Survey of India for over ...
Botanical illustrators, like Alice Tangerini of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, help scientists pinpoint subtle differences between species. See more botanical art and illustration ...
Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...
Do you think, I asked the group at coffee after yoga, that going to the botanical illustration show at Ballarat Gallery (no permalink) is like visiting the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra? What ...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which describes itself as “the world’s leading gardening charity”, has always combined an interest in gardens with a keen eye for botanical art. Dating back to ...
Flourishing: Chinese Chrysanthemum cultivar, from 'The Golden Age of Botanical Art' One of the perks of being a writer who gardens is the books that drop through my letterbox to review. I’m rarely ...