The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were ...

Let's draw our way into spring. On Saturday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to noon, join the Rockingham Free Public Library for a botanical drawing workshop.

The discovery of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) took the art world by storm with the blockbuster exhibition "Paintings for the Future," featuring her 1906 canvases, at the Solomon R.

Macoto Murayama can spend months on one of his botanical illustrations, and when he's done, the plant looks like something that blossomed in outer space. First, he dissects his subject with a scalpel, ...

Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...

Botanical art goes back to the Middle Ages, when healers began illustrating their records of medicinal plants with drawings to help identify them correctly. Botanical illustrators accompanied ...

Nowadays, when life for the vast majority of population has been reduced to plain survival in smog-entombed cities, where breathing means inhaling other people's coughs, sneezes and various exhausts, ...

The need for exactness differentiates botanical illustration from more general flower painting. In the hands of a talented botanical artist, however, the illustration goes beyond its scientific ...

Maj Gen CS Bewli (Retd) Author Martyn Rix, editor of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine at Kew Gardens, UK, and an accomplished chronicler of botanical art, has created an excellent piece of work by ...