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 ...

Denver? Instead of being told to stand back and observe, visitors to the latest exhibition at the Denver Art Museum are given magnifying glasses. The best way to see a tiny drop of water among the ...

Presenting recreations of observations and inspirations found in the local natural world, the Queen Anne’s County Centre for ...

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, ...

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

Reproductions of botanical drawings made in the 1840s and 1850s, by several different Indian artists for the East India Company surgeon, and pioneering Forest Conservator, Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).

If you’re feeling down and need a distraction, take a look outside: Spring has sprung and flowers are in full bloom, so what better time is there to learn how to draw them than during this season of ...

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 ...

Botanical art is having a moment. From Sabyasachi’s floral wallpaper to schools books replete with plant-inspired illustrations, botanicals are everywhere With Amitav Ghosh’s latest book, Gun Island, ...

It's Archibald time; the annual portrait prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales when visitors traverse the Sydney Domain to see paintings of well known, and sometimes not so well known, ...

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 ...