A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art Show in February. The artists — 10 ...

During the 17th century, illustrations of plants were mostly drawn for medicinal and botanical research rather than as works of art. The particularly detailed renderings of flora by botanist and ...

Purchase: Prints are available in the gift shop and on her website. On first glance, the botanicals sprawling the walls of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia visitor's center depict the greens, ...

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 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, ...

Botanical art, botanical illustration and flower painting are not the same thing. The emphasis on scientific accuracy and aesthetic value varies among the three, but they all showcase a plant’s ...

“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 ...

They say a picture tells a thousand words. But in the case of botanical art it’s fair to say that it’s probably far more than that, as proven by a magnificent new book Drawn from Nature: The Flowering ...

A set of replica botanical prints at Encore Consignment Gallery For those of us who love the delicate nature of botanical illustrations, St. Louis is a great place to shop. Whether replicas or ...