If you are on Twitter and are not following @treesinmusic then you are missing out. A diverse list of artists and genres across many decades all share a common bond – trees. It gives a flavour of just how much inspiration comes from these big plants. Here are six of the best – all women …
Oh to be in England in April! Wildflowers are here in abundance now. Time to refresh your plant identification skills. If you are unable to identify at least 10-20 of the plants growing in your neighbourhood, it is probable you are missing out on something very special. A buttercup is a good one to master, it’s unmistakably …
The South Asia section of the Victoria and Albert museum is awash with plant patterns. If you are looking for a large amount of inspiration in one place, or you just want to plagiarise – everything a few centuries too old to be in copyright – then head here. Textiles, paintings, sculpture and more hang inside huge …
Claudio Troncoso Rojas is a Chilean photographer currently based in Santiago. He has shot many great series which explore the interactions between plants and human constructed landscapes or artefacts. A series of photographs gives the wider vision of the artist, and Rojas’ website displays this collective power well. Here we display a selection of images from different series, as every plant also offers …
The following Public Domain artworks are from the book Familiar Indian Flowers by Lena Lowis published by Thacker and Co., Bombay, 1878. While they may have been familiar flowers in India at this time to British colonialists, not all are natives e.g Poinsettia. Those with ‘indica‘ as the species epithet (the second part of the latin name) …
In general, we either tend to be plant people or animal people. Sometimes, the more holistic and evolved among us, are both. Artist Ann Marshall, in her Biophilia series, has surrounded some magical looking animals with some mystically lit plants, collectively resulting in something much more. In addition, she produced some detailed botanical work as …
Seattle based photographer Cody Cobb’s images project atmosphere, silence and mystery. There’s a story in all of them: Where does the road lead? Why has that tree fallen? What’s on the other side of the river? The plants – tones of green and brown, textures soft and hard, growth both ordered and chaotic, environments exotic …
Brooklyn based artist Eddie Perrote captures the essence and life-force of plants in his expressive, bright, chromatic Stoney Point Flowers series. In Vegetables and Cooking he mixes colour, lines and chaos to fun effect. Artist’s website Stoney Point Flowers is a cut and dried flower wholesaler located in the beautiful countryside of southwestern Wisconsin. For …