Botanical art is a unique fusion of art and science, focusing on the accurate depiction of plants. It has been practiced for ...
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 ...
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 ...
This fall, a group of artworks by Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, and other contemporary artists will simultaneously go on view in a dozen different gardens worldwide. In a sense, that is. They’re augmented ...
Throughout history, precise renderings of foliage have served about as many purposes as the plants themselves. Botanical art, located at the intersection of art and science, has a way of conveying ...
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 ...
Fall is officially here, and so is Autumn at the Arboretum, the annual pumpkin-filled display at the Dallas Arboretum and ...
Art is everywhere, including in nature. Case in point: The Living Art Festival on Miami Beach is a botanical art installation that fuses natural elements with artistic creativity. The festival was ...
Barry Rosenthal’s series of jewel-toned garbage collections sheds new light on litter. Before photography and the Internet, developments in botany depended heavily on artists, rather than on foragers ...