The composition of Dutch still life artist Joke Frima’s (b.1952) paintings, choice of plant, combined with her hyperrealistic style, give her botanical work a distinctive feel. In some of her paintings we are drawn into sweeping botanicalscapes by getting a low-down, enmeshed perspective. In other works, like her still life arrangements, she manages to evoke …

Yesterday we looked at a 19th Century natural history artist with enduring appeal, today we focus on an outstanding modern day one. Rachel Pedder-Smith is a contemporary botanical artist who achieved acclaim for her Herbarium Specimen Painting, first exhibited at Kew Gardens in 2012. At five meters long, this large-scale watercolour montage of plant bits …

Last in our series of free botanical vintage art from The New Botanical Garden book via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. See previous post for details. All images below are in the Public Domain for you to use as you wish. We work through from Primula to Vitex. Please note that the name in brackets is …

Following on from the first post in this series of three where we presented plants in the genera Acanthus to Dahlia, we now give you Daphne to Origanum. This second batch of 43, free vintage botanical plant images come again via the super Biodiversity Heritage Library. See previous post for publication and species name authentication details. Many of …