A small tree inspired old poem and a big tree inspired even older picture to celebrate Christmas week. Happy Christmas, by Danish painter Johansen Viggo, 1891 little tree by E.E. Cummings, 1959 little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest …
Books are always the best gift if you get it right. An absolute burden to the receiver if you get it wrong. Plant books are generally right, the reason being if there are pictures it’s never a hardship to peruse them. Here are some ideas for a nice plant with art present for that special person. Check out Plant Curator’s shop …
Plants are the greatest gift of all because, hopefully, they keep on giving long after the memory of all the other Christmas tat is gone. If you give them to an artist, they may even be immortalised. Here are ten suggestions of plants worth considering. Send them through the post or hand over in person, …
The variety of plant life, along with hiking trails and sunshine, is one reason enough to visit La Palma in the Canary Islands. To start with there is the abundance of bananas, with the island home to many banana farmers. You see them growing everywhere. For some, this is a travesty, a dominating monoculture that …
Today, to buy an original Tiffany lamp, you will need to pay anything from a couple of thousand to over a million pounds. Reinforcing our belief that botanical is always best, the lamps that are more in demand today are the brighter coloured floral ones that became iconic emblems of the Art Nouveau movement. The original Tiffany lamps …
At the Horst: Photographer of Style exhibition currently running at the V & A, in among the glamour shots taken for Vogue and House and Garden, you will find a small section of black and white photographs drawn from nature the artist took in 1946. The full extent of these works can be found in Horst’s book Patterns from Nature, Plants …
Lewisham born Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) illustrated a number of well-known children’s books in the early 1900s, including Aesop’s Fables, Gulliver’s Travels and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. His work became intrinsically linked to the stories, with abiding memories based on the visuals he created. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie was published in 1906 and …
Plant cartoons care of the Comic Strip Library. Published between 1913 and 1944 Krazy Kat was an American newspaper comic strip by cartoonist George Herriman (1880–1944). Supplying off-beat gentle humour it coined the well known phrase “Krazy Kat”. These works are now in the Public Domain both in the US and in the UK. Note: …
Polish born, Australia based photographic artist Renata Buziak experiments with plants, turning the results into beautifully radiant images. In her own words she forms ‘alliances between a variety of plants and photographic emulsions’ which she calls Biochromes. Somehow she enables the chemical and biological reactions of decaying plants to imprint onto photographic materials creating what …
These floral borders are available from the British Library flickr photostream. The way they are scanning even the smallest graphic detail from old books for our artistic use is rather pleasing. This selection has been straightened, enhanced and cropped to better show-off each design, but the originals, plus over a million more free digitised artworks …