Meryl Watts (1910 – 1992) was born in East London and worked predominantly as a painter and woodcut printer. After studying at the Blackheath School of Arts under the tutelage of another eminent British colour printmaker John Edgar Platt (1886-1967), she went on to achieve success in her own right, exhibiting at both the Royal …

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 …

Since the turn of the century the following nine artists have used flowers or plants in a call for peace, to counteract images of violence or to highlight social injustice. We celebrate them all here along with the life-affirming nature and beauty of plants. 1. Collages of Mister Blick, 2014 Blick’s collages substitute weapons with …

Do you ever wake up in the morning and think your hair seems a little all over the place. Count yourself lucky, some out there have truly wild hair. Cleverly creative street artists incorporate living plants into their artwork by using nearby vegetation to add hair to their subjects heads. When done well it offers …

Plant Curator is astonished by the work of Cecelia Webber who takes photographs of nude models in different poses and then edits them together digitally to form inordinately life-like images of flowers or other organisms. When viewed at a distance, you do not notice the reality of the subject – how can that be?  They are …

Stumbling across the work of food photographer Carl Warner is quite a trip.  Below you will find a few of our favourite plant-food derived images. We seem to have a preference for green vegetables. See many more delicious shots, and learn all about this talented and successful foodscapist, on his website and via the video below. www.carlwarner.com …

Plant Curator has been scouring the web for plant cartoons and cartoonist with only a modicum of success. Why the dearth? As Berger and Wyse have shown, there is so much humour to be had with plants. However, theirs tend to be focused on produce (i.e. fruit and vegetables) and we want plant plant cartoons. What …

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 …

In any good neighbourhood you will find a range of personality types – the hoity-toity one, the space-cadet, the sensitive one, the intellectual, the dreamer, the complete nutter – you know, the usual crowd. Between Broughton and Jervis on Pendrell Street in the West End of Vancouver, you can find all of the above, just …

Dr Jonathan Mitchley is a Lecturer in Plant Community Ecology at the University of Reading. This means he teaches about wild plants, how to identify them and their importance in the different habitats of the UK. Like all the best lecturers he is slightly bonkers. But that, in addition to his dedication, generosity and indefatigable spirit, …