Canadian artist Emily Carr (1871 – 1945) is being featured at Vancouver Art Gallery for one more week. Deep Forest exhibition highlights a body of work where Carr focused predominately on the botanical. The paintings are filled with vegetation full of movement and energy flow, with the understory rolling like a river and the trees rising …
Today’s post delves into the world of album cover art. Who misses handling vinyl? We do. Holding the disc, inner sleeve or album cover of your favourite band was a pleasure to behold. Digital music, while having its own irrefutable qualities, has removed the joy of this ritual. Covers are still produced for every record …
Graphic designer Christopher Dina series of colourful illustrations titled ‘Fruit’ cleverly show some of the diversity and wonder of these plant parts. The use of the scientific name as the title only adds to the allure, as who would not want to own an artwork called Vaccinium corymbosum, for example? They are much less detailed and …
David Shrigley once said the thing he least liked about his appearance was that he had become a habitual fleece wearer. We hear you Dave. Problems apart, he is a legend. A brilliant commentator on life’s absurdities, thoughts and social issues plus all sorts of other stuff too. He seems to be drawn to the …
To some of us herbaria, taxonomy, nomenclature and specimens are all rather romantic. To others they are living symbols of our colonial past and neo-colonial present. Where the role of botanical expeditions in exploiting, through acquisition and inventory, the world’s most valuable species, contributed to the monolithic global economic inequities that are impossible to shift …
Wood textures are practically plants are they not? If you are looking to add an organic backdrop not too dissimilar to that employed by the ‘growing’ presenter and self-professed ‘botany geek’ James Wong on his website, Plant Curator is here to help. Find below a few carefully selected options hunted down on the web. They …
Not sure what exactly it is about the Purple Rose Florist website that has captured the attention of Plant Curator. The images don’t even display properly on some pages. Yet the retro or vintage (which one?), post-modern, neighbourly feel is a highly enjoyable user experience and a welcome relief to all the contemporary looking, action-packed, …
Well-known to many as the female artist who painted flowers suggestive of women’s anatomy, Plant Curator recently investigated the life and art of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986). ‘The first’ biography, Portrait of an Artist, was written by Laurie Lisle in 1986. It gives a detailed account of O’Keeffe’s childhood, education and journey to becoming …
Identical twins pose in front of the sunflowers at the National – Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images. Two of the most famous plant paintings of all time are currently hanging next to each other in the National Gallery. Whether you are seduced by their charms or not, this reunion of two versions of one of Vincent …
Find endless floral design at Liberty London both classic and idiosyncratic, inspired by a whole range of elite designers. Liberty have been producing well curated floral prints since 1895 and their unerring commitment to the stylishness of plants makes it Plant Curator’s favourite department store. Below we highlight a few of our favourites this month.