Woody Campbell is taking one photo a day for the rest of his life. Not just any old photo, but a really nice one. He then puts it on his photo blog for us all to enjoy. Since he has been going for 1,645 days now, he is able to offer up interesting comparisons too. …

On paper the Goaman’s marriage was made in heaven. They both lived together and worked together, but that’s not the good bit. They also designed stamps together and better still, a large number of those had a botanical theme. Is there a more pleasurable activity you could possibly do with your partner?  Michael and Sylvia …

Fabric designs are teeming with botanical and floral artistry this Spring as always – plants are always on trend, every season, in one form or another. We particularly like those designers that avoid the well-known plants and floral cliches, going instead for something different. Ferns seem to be popular at the moment with both Sanderson …

Patrick Caulfield, CBE, RA (1936 – 2005) is a celebrated UK artist, immediately recognisable for his bold, reductive, outline heavy creations of everyday objects.  The critic Christopher Finch described him as a “Romantic disarmed by his own sense of irony”. He somehow managed to paint very little but portray so much. Although considered an ‘urban …

Plant Curator was lucky enough to see Yoko Ono perform (music) at the Royal Festival Hall c.2005. She was a petit, yapping, avant-garde wonder, shiningly entertaining at that.  She currently has a major retrospective of her career that spans five decades at Guggenheim Bilbao. It shows just how much she has achieved. She is her …

Street artist ATM paints naturalistic representations of endangered birds on empty walls in London. The birds are not tiny like birds generally are, but magnified to cover large expanses of brickwork or concrete. Take a look at his birds, they are quite brilliant. Set against manufactured surroundings, each bird’s colour and form seems strikingly exotic …

Usually you can see Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia at Tate Britain, but it was recently loaned out to Japan and now is in Turin, after that maybe somewhere else.  It is good to share. For most interested people around the globe a digital or printed image is all that they are ever likely to …

Alex Monroe is a man that creates mostly nature-themed jewellery for women. He draws inspiration from the Suffolk countryside where he grew up and it’s his plant-inspired pieces that we like the most. All of his jewellery is pretty with a vintage, hand-crafted appeal, but it is much more than that, especially when he brings …

In photographer John Humphrey‘s ‘Pressed Flowers’ series he uses the scientific or vernacular name of the plant he captures. This, along with the close-up detail of the pressed flower he shoots, gives us an interesting perspective on these plants. The images feel very alive, all the more surprising considering the plants are not. He captures an interesting array of morphological detail, every …

When Plant Curator visited the Snowdrop Festival at Mapperton Gardens earlier this year, we came across the Snowdrop sculptures of Colleen Du Pon.  Du Pon is an Ironwork artist and artisan working in Dorset and her own magnified representations of these small flowers were set among the garden landscape. Standing tall at nearly shoulder height, …