For those of us with botanical leanings, there is something slightly less satisfying about looking at a famous painting of a plant without knowing the exact species rendered. It’s equivalent to looking at a photograph of a captivating face from some faraway land and never knowing the person’s name or if they even agreed to …
There are people that have extremely difficult and painful lives, yet somehow, some of them are able to still go on to bring delight to other people’s. That is quite something. Yayoi Kusama is one such person and her latest exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery has filled the uplifting artworks void in London recently left by Matisse’s …
Los Angeles based artist and designer Jon Lau paints plants at their charming, whimsical, gentle best.
Free plant art today from Robert John Thornton’s (c. 1768–1837) “A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus – Part III”, a.k.a the “Temple of Flora”. These large-format plates were engraved by Thomas Medland in May 1798, from paintings by Philip Reinagle, with the book finally being published in 1807. It was …
Walking through the National Gallery in London is one of life’s great free pleasures. If you live in London that is. While there, what you tend to overhear most are people proclaiming, “now this one, is REALLY famous”. The truth is, they kind of all are, but some rooms definitely impress more. Room 45 is …
These artworks are taken from the book Wild flowers of the Pacific coast. From original water color sketches drawn from nature by Emma Homan Thayer (E.H.T). It was published in New York c.1887 by Cassell & Company, limited. Its old age denotes it is now in the Public Domain meaning all images are free to …
Up until recently Bristol based mixed-media artist Kerry Day’s focus has been on rendering the human form. These portraits are seductive, each one of her subjects, often nude, has some oddly arresting feature or presence. We are pleased to see, she has now turned her talents to plants, more specifically pot plants, and mostly cacti …
Like many great artists before him – Van Gogh, Matisse and Monet to name a few – in 1965 Andy Warhol turned his attention to flowers for a period. Although not really fitting with the modernist art movement of the time, this was the 60s and flowers had become symbolic of the peace seeking counter-culture of …
Ben Sanders is an artist living and working in LA – you can view his super paintings and drawings on his website bensandersstudio.com. As a sideline he sells painted plant pots on Instagram aided by cacti and other succulent species. He posts a picture of each one on the photo-sharing site and the first person …
Paul Morrison’s monochromatic botanical landscapes give us a bit of everything we love. Firstly, he renders plants in a reasonably botanically accurate way, clearly taking inspiration from the shapes and patterns that plants produce. But he then shakes it all up a bit to great effect. Not only does he add some more cartoony impressionistic …