To plant-lovers accustomed to full-color photographs in glossy gardening magazines, the botanical drawings in the recently mounted “Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew” exhibit at first glance may ...
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, ...
Pioneering Irish artists are at the heart of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new exhibition, Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, spanning almost 300 years. The exhibition celebrates artists who ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As gardens go to sleep in the week before Christmas, I find sustenance in the current flowering of botanical ...
The art of documenting plants and flowers is having a resurgence, with more and more people wanting to draw what they see rather than take photos. Illustrations of native Australian plants and flowers ...
The hottest selfie spot in New York last week wasn’t some trendy pop-up museum or flashy public artwork. It was the ten-year-in-the-making flowering of the rare Amorphophallus titanum, a massive ...
`Women of Flowers — A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators” at the Chicago Botanic Garden has gathered together 44 works of botanic art produced by flower-empowered women artists of the 18th and ...
Outshining the lush foliage that surrounds it, a glorious spiked tower of indigo blue glass blooms near the entrance of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Take a left turn past the garden entrance and a ...
In 2018, the once obscure and overlooked Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was catapulted into the limelight with the blockbuster retrospective “Paintings for the Future” at the Solomon R.
Vincent van Gogh's deep blue lilies, vibrant sunflowers, and golden wheat fields leap from the canvas as if they're living flowers. This spring, they will be. New York Botanical Garden is hosting a ...
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 ...