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Botticelli’s flowers to Valentino’s dresses via Celia Birtwell

Botticelli’s flowers to Valentino’s dresses via Celia Birtwell

Celia Birtwell has been immortalised by David Hockney in his painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970-71), a painting cherished here mostly for the blue vase full of lilies resting on the table. Birtwell’s appearance in this famous painting is by no means her most significant achievement, being a successful and lauded fabric designer in her own …

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Interview with Coral Guest: Flower Painter

Interview with Coral Guest: Flower Painter

At Plant Curator we use the term ‘plant art’ to refer to any representation of creativity in the arts that utilise plants. It doesn’t matter to us if this is a poem or a painting, or if it’s a naturalistic representation or something altogether more abstract, we just want to celebrate plants because they do not …

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Creatives with Plants

Creatives with Plants

Kate Bush, Sensual World, 1989 (Gardenia) Andy Warhol (Sunflowers) Michael Cera (Cactus) Billie Holiday (Gardenia) Rudolf Nureyev, 1963 (Roses) View image | gettyimages.com Truman Capote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1947 (Alocasia macrorrhiza) Michael Jackson (Lilies and more) Joan Allen as Georgia O’Keeffe (Poppies) Jean-Paul Gaultier, by Paul & Gilles (Daisies) U2 by Anton Corbijn (Joshua Tree) …

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Plant in the Room: Magnolia

Plant in the Room: Magnolia

Marguerite Kelsey and a magnolia by Meredith Frampton, 1928 What an exquisite specimen. The woman is quite lovely too. When Meredith Frampton (1894 – 1984) painted Marguerite Kelsey’s portrait in 1928 he achieved excellence, stunningly matching her particular kind of beauty with a particularly beautiful plant. This is an image that is all about poise and pride, class …

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Plant in the room: Narcissus

Plant in the room: Narcissus

Self Portrait by Christian Schad (1927) Having a narcissus flower staring you in the face can only really mean one thing – you’re a vain so and so. Not that the flower symbolism in Christian Schad’s Self-Portrait is really needed, as the artist’s obsession with showing off his chest in a see-through top, rather than …

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What species is Monet’s Bodmer Oak?

What species is Monet’s Bodmer Oak?

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 …

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The Top 5 Identification Guides for UK Wild Plant Photographers

The Top 5 Identification Guides for UK Wild Plant Photographers

If you are making a living out of photography, you must be good. If you are making a living out of wild plant photography you’re a genius. There is not much call for wild plant photographs these days, especially macro shots that offer a portrait of an individual plant. Some talented individuals have success with …

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Old cacti keep the wow factor

Old cacti keep the wow factor

Some old free botanical cacti art today from the book: “Iconographie descriptive des cactees, ou, Essais systematiques et raisonnes sur l’histoire naturelle, la classification et la culture des plantes de cette famille“. Which translates (roughly) to: Featured iconography cacti, or systematic and reasoned essays on natural history, classification and cultivation of plants in this family. …

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88 free vintage medicinal plant illlustrations

88 free vintage medicinal plant illlustrations

Franz Eugen Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen or Medicinal Plants was published in 1887 in Germany. It comes in four volumes and includes over 300 detailed, beautiful, botanical illustrations of plants. Below we supply 88 from Volume 1. The book was written by Kohler but the pictures were drawn by artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt. They were …

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Species list for Millais’ Ophelia anyone?

Species list for Millais’ Ophelia anyone?

Usually you can see Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia at Tate Britain, but it was recently loaned out to Japan and now is in Turin, after that maybe somewhere else.  It is good to share. For most interested people around the globe a digital or printed image is all that they are ever likely to …

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