There are a number of interesting exhibitions to choose from this month, as well as many summer flower events both wild and cultivated, proving once again that plants are an endless source of inspiration. Here are our top plant inspired picks for July. 1. Silent Exchange by Charlie Waite at the The National Theatre, London Landscape photography (like all …
Ai Weiwei seems to be everywhere these days, which is ironic considering he remains country-bound, prohibited from travelling outside of his native China for dissident activities. Hasn’t seemed to have stopped him, with the help of social media and an exponential growth of western fans, it will be fascinating to watch how far he can …
Here are five inspirational plant activities for June including to garden festivals of different sorts. All suggestions are based on the assumption you have endless wealth and free time at your disposal. If you can’t do all five, one is good too. 1. Rhodope Wildflower Festival, Bulgaria – 21-29 June If you need any more reason …
There is so much going on this month including the RHS’s Chelsea Flower Show and Malvern Spring Festival, plus Kew embraces non-conventional plant wisdom while partnering with GSK for its Plantasia event. While these will no doubt do plants justice, we instead choose to focus on a few of our own May highlights. Our aim is …
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 …
For those of us that get creative inspiration from plants – festivals, shows and even parades are always worth a visit. At such events we either get to see a great diversity of plants or just loads and loads of plants, and if we are really lucky, both. Sometimes the setting is indoors in small, …
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 …
Identical twins pose in front of the sunflowers at the National – Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images. Two of the most famous plant paintings of all time are currently hanging next to each other in the National Gallery. Whether you are seduced by their charms or not, this reunion of two versions of one of Vincent …