When Plant Curator visited the Snowdrop Festival at Mapperton Gardens earlier this year, we came across the Snowdrop sculptures of Colleen Du Pon. Du Pon is an Ironwork artist and artisan working in Dorset and her own magnified representations of these small flowers were set among the garden landscape. Standing tall at nearly shoulder height, …
If you are looking for a plant-inspiring road-trip this May/June, then make it The Lizard in Cornwall and hope for good weather. When the sun is shining and the wind isn’t blowing too much, this peninsula on the southern most reaches of the UK can compete with the best wild plant hotspots of the world. …
In recent weeks we have been directing readers to free botanical art in the Public Domain. If you need inspiration as to what you could do with it, look no further than San Francisco based artist Alexis Anne Mackenzie. A fabulous, successful collagist, Mackenzie sources much of her primary material it seems from old natural history …
In 1983, over thirty years ago now, The Smith’s released their second single called This Charming Man. The music video for which (see below) was one big flower-fest. Morrissey can be seen waving gladioli above his head, while the floor is carpeted, and the band strewn, with cut flowers. These floralisms were apparent in The …
For some of us plants are always on our minds, for others they really come into focus around now, when Spring is revving up and the incredible beauty of flower colour and form comes to the forefront. Apart from just getting out into nature, which is the number one practice for those of us that …
The New York Public Library has released over 20,000 maps and cartographic works into the public domain. This means they have done a whole lot of scanning and transcribing on our behalf. Due to the elderliness of the publications, they fall outside of copyright legislation and so are available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 …
To celebrate the arrival of long overdue marriage equality legislation in the UK, we thought timely to showcase one of our favourite Clarice Cliff (1899 – 1972) floral patterns – Gayday. This design created by Cliff in 1930 gives centre stage to orange, red and purple flowers derived from some part of the Asteraceae family. …
Pascal Wyse and Joe Berger are two witty, silly, offbeat gentlemen, who go by the moniker of Berger & Wyse when producing some super cartoons together for The Weekend Guardian among others. Of particular interest to us are the talking fruit and vegetable cartoons from their food series. Here are a few of our favourites below, …
If anyone tells you that a scarf printed with plants is not cool, they are tragically misguided and just plain wrong. These floracentric quadrilateral pieces of material look as good on young men as they do on old women, and as good on young women as they do on old men, not to mention kids …
Maybe it’s her name, which Plant Curator can’t stop saying, or maybe it’s the lovely bio on her website that is full of positivity, sweetness and colour, or maybe it’s her intricate, sweeping floral headdress illustrations. Whatever it is, the world can’t have enough Sunny Gus. This Los Angeles based fashion and beauty illustrator is …