Maybe it’s her name, which Plant Curator can’t stop saying, or maybe it’s the lovely bio on her website that is full of positivity, sweetness and colour, or maybe it’s her intricate, sweeping floral headdress illustrations. Whatever it is, the world can’t have enough Sunny Gus. This Los Angeles based fashion and beauty illustrator is …
At Plant Curator we use the term botanical art loosely to include any creative expression that involves plants. Over the last few months this website has shown that there are many great artists out there doing incredible things with plants, working in every medium you can imagine. Yet historically the term “botanical art” was used …
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) is well known for his architectural design and for being the UK’s main exponent of Art Nouveau. While he is also noted for enhancing those designs with flower motifs, he is perhaps less appreciated for his outright botanical art works. A new exhibition this summer may go some way towards revising …
*No longer online Vegetal Passion is an online exhibition well worth a visit. To do this, you need to navigate to the URL given and take a look. Instead of walking around a room passively, you scroll and shift images and objects creating your own focal points and passageways through it, while at the same time …
There is only one real drive in Vancouver and it is called Commercial Drive. A place where cultural difference and creative endeavour form the cornerstones of community. There are uniquely painted walls all along the Drive, but from around Adanac Street to 1st Avenue there is a particularly high density of street art sprayed and sloshed across …
But Christmas has passed we hear you cry. Well, sorry but garlands are going to be big all year round in 2014. You heard it here first. If Plant Curator was ever tempted by an alternative career it would be that of a garland maker. Pulling together lots of discarded or sustainably sourced plant bits …
It is always the way that when you spend ages evaluating the Top 10 plant inspired album cover artworks of all time, the very next week another one will come along that you like even more. Just try it. Anyhow, rather than update an old post Plant Curator decided to create a new one. So today …
Canadian artist Emily Carr (1871 – 1945) is being featured at Vancouver Art Gallery for one more week. Deep Forest exhibition highlights a body of work where Carr focused predominately on the botanical. The paintings are filled with vegetation full of movement and energy flow, with the understory rolling like a river and the trees rising …
Today’s post delves into the world of album cover art. Who misses handling vinyl? We do. Holding the disc, inner sleeve or album cover of your favourite band was a pleasure to behold. Digital music, while having its own irrefutable qualities, has removed the joy of this ritual. Covers are still produced for every record …
Graphic designer Christopher Dina series of colourful illustrations titled ‘Fruit’ cleverly show some of the diversity and wonder of these plant parts. The use of the scientific name as the title only adds to the allure, as who would not want to own an artwork called Vaccinium corymbosum, for example? They are much less detailed and …