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Home » Monthly Archive for: 'December 25th, 2014'
Christmas card

Merry Christmas

© Jo Price & Elena Underhill

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Christmas tree

Tree picture and poem for Christmas

A small tree inspired old poem and a big tree inspired even older picture to celebrate Christmas week. Happy Christmas, by Danish painter Johansen Viggo, 1891 little tree by E.E. Cummings, 1959 little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest …

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Herb and flower cookbook

Plant book gifts for christmas

Books are always the best gift if you get it right. An absolute burden to the receiver if you get it wrong. Plant books are generally right, the reason being if there are pictures it’s never a hardship to peruse them. Here are some ideas for a nice plant with art present for that special person. Check out Plant Curator’s shop …

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palm by escher

Escher’s plants

Finding fresh ways to represent plants is no easy thing. Varying the perspective, taking obscure viewpoints, playing with abstraction, looking at fine detail and engaging with elements of surrealism, are all possible approaches. One artist that utilised all of these was Mauritis Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). The son of a Dutch engineer, he studied architecture, graphic …

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lilac

10 plant gifts for Christmas

Plants are the greatest gift of all because, hopefully, they keep on giving long after the memory of all the other Christmas tat is gone. If you give them to an artist, they may even be immortalised. Here are ten suggestions of plants worth considering. Send them through the post or hand over in person, …

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Truman capote

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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Winter tree at sunrise

Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath

Winter Trees is the title poem of Plath’s 1971 posthumous collection of poetry published by her husband Ted Hughes. Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. On their blotter of fog the trees Seem a botanical drawing– Memories growning, ring on ring, A series of weddings. Knowing neither …

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Christmas tree

The London Christmas Tree & Plant Art Walking Map

Very large lit-up conifer trees have appeared across the city for our enjoyment – we should celebrate them as they have given their lives for us. In addition, there are many other interpretive botanical works to be seen in London. We bring it all together in one map. Take the walking route suggested and in …

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Christmas tree cone bauble

How many different plant species can you hang from a Christmas tree?

Plants are non-denominational, offering-up their enhancement services for celebrations and ceremonies of all religions without discrimination. Different countries use different plants of course, having developed their own stories of how they came to be tradition. To get an idea of what plants are considered seasonal in the UK Christian calendar at this time of year, …

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Lee Krasner Self-portrait

Self-portraits with plants

Lee Krasner, Self-Portrait, ca. 1929 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lucian Freud, Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening, 1967 Gilbert and George, Nettle Dance, 2008 Joni Mitchell, Clouds, 1969 Natalia Goncharova, Self-portrait, 1907 Anthony van Dyck, Self Portrait With a Sunflower, c.1633 Umberto Boccioni, Self portrait, 1905 Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Lampion Fruit, 1912 Frida …

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