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 …
Alex Monroe is a man that creates mostly nature-themed jewellery for women. He draws inspiration from the Suffolk countryside where he grew up and it’s his plant-inspired pieces that we like the most. All of his jewellery is pretty with a vintage, hand-crafted appeal, but it is much more than that, especially when he brings …
In photographer John Humphrey‘s ‘Pressed Flowers’ series he uses the scientific or vernacular name of the plant he captures. This, along with the close-up detail of the pressed flower he shoots, gives us an interesting perspective on these plants. The images feel very alive, all the more surprising considering the plants are not. He captures an interesting array of morphological detail, every …
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 …
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 …
If you are a photographer who submits your artwork to online image libraries such as istockphoto.com, Shutterstock, Getty Images or Dreamstime, you will know that there are a few key things you can do to increase your chances of success. Firstly, take a brilliant photograph; secondly, manage to get it accepted into the aforementioned library; and thirdly, …
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. …