Barbra Streisand is back at the top of the charts again with ‘Partners’, a collection of duets covering hits from her own back catalogue. Unfortunately Plant Curator’s all time favourite ‘You don’t bring me flowers’ is not included, but the presence of ‘Evergreen’ means this album is not without plant content. Over four decades ago, …
Robert McPartland uses the repeating forms of commonplace objects in his still life paintings and drawings. Of interest here are the inclusion of leaves, fruit and vegetables that frequently appear; set against spoons, crumpled foil and paper spirals, you are able to meditate on their contrasting shapes, textures and energies. McPartland seems to be avoiding …
Prague based Martin Rak is an accomplished landscape photographer who we have featured here before; today we take a look at some more of his pictures. Tree photography, due to the scale, is one of the more difficult plant genres to master. Rak has managed it well, showing a range of engaging composition styles. One of these is …
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 …
Columbia Road Flower Market and its environs is quite the spectacle; this is obvious from the sheer number of photographers hovering at every stall. What also gives it away is the pale-pink-suited male model strolling past holding a large bunch of deep pink velvety dahlias, or the tweed wearing, moustached 20 year old art student …
For anyone that missed it on the front page of the Guardian newspaper yesterday, the UK’s current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy turned to plants to mark the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum. Starting with the Gaelic translation of ‘I love you’, this wonderful poet produced a poem that aptly reflects the levels of emotion …
There are people that have particularly difficult and painful lives, yet somehow, some are able to go on and bring delight to other people’s. 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 cut-outs. This is an …
Bryophytes are mosses and liverworts. Mosses and liverworts are ancient non-flowering members of the plant kingdom. They are more often than not very small, although readily form carpets covering large areas. They have wonderful common names like Flapwort, Haircap or Sheathed Timmia, and scientific names that are impossible to remember such as Brachythecium rutabalum. On …
This week London’s catwalks have again been awash with embroidered and printed flowers for Spring and Summer 2015 collections. Yet Autumn this year is up first and plant inspired botanical sweatshirts are where it’s at. The trend continues from last season of embracing bold graphic botanical prints over pretty floral sprigs but with a darker …
Los Angeles based artist and designer Jon Lau paints plants at their charming, whimsical, gentle best.