Plant Curator
Collection | Preservation | Inspiration
  • Art & Design
    • Painting
    • Photography
    • Cartoons
    • Fashion
    • Free Art
    • Artist
  • Culture
    • Events
    • Books
    • Poetry
  • Travel
    • London
    • Gardens
    • Places
  • Books
Home » Painting
Joan Mitchell

20 tree paintings by women artists

Part one of a two-part series of tree paintings. Today we feature female painters and then on Monday it’s the men. The aim is to show comparative renderings of these spectacular plants by some of the most renowned female artists ever. Although we have numbered them, this is not a rank, just a way to …

Read more »
Botanical art cacti

Old cacti keep the wow factor

Beautiful old botanical paintings of cacti today from the book: “Iconographie descriptive des cactees, ou, Essais systematiques et raisonnes sur l’histoire naturelle, la classification et la culture des plantes de cette famille“. Which translates (roughly) to: Featured iconography cacti, or systematic and reasoned essays on natural history, classification and cultivation of plants in this family. …

Read more »
Pacific plant botanical illustrations

Free vintage plant illustrations from the Pacific coast

These artworks are taken from the book Wild flowers of the Pacific coast. From original water color sketches drawn from nature by Emma Homan Thayer (E.H.T). It was published in New York c.1887 by Cassell & Company, limited. Its old age denotes it is now in the Public Domain meaning all images are free to …

Read more »
tending the garden

Daniel Ridgway Knight’s plant loving peasant women

American born Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839 – 1924) painted women outdoors surrounded by a diverse array of plants, many in flower, always beautiful. The women are interesting, but they are there of course to draw our attention to the main attraction. Tending The Garden Tending The Garden (detail) Spring Blossoms Picking Wildflowers The Rose Garden …

Read more »
Claude-Monet-The-Bodmer-Oak-Fontainebleau-Forest

What species is Monet’s Bodmer Oak?

For those of us with botanical leanings, there is something slightly less satisfying about looking at a famous painting of a plant without knowing the exact species rendered. It’s equivalent to looking at a photograph of a captivating face from some faraway land and never knowing the person’s name or if they even agreed to …

Read more »
Pumpkin sculpture artwork

Pumpkintastic!

There are people that have particularly difficult and painful lives, yet somehow, some are able to go on and bring delight to other people’s.  Yayoi Kusama is one such person and her latest exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery has filled the uplifting artworks void in London recently left by Matisse’s cut-outs. This is an …

Read more »
jon Lau plant illustration

Jon Lau’s gentle plants

Los Angeles based artist and designer Jon Lau paints plants at their charming, whimsical, gentle best.

Read more »
Botanical illustration

Free plant art from the Temple of Flora

Free plant art today from Robert John Thornton’s (c. 1768–1837) “A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus – Part III”, a.k.a the “Temple of Flora”. These large-format plates were engraved by Thomas Medland in May 1798, from paintings by Philip Reinagle, with the book finally being published in 1807.  It was …

Read more »
Room 45 at the National Gallery is plant heaven

Room 45 at the National Gallery is plant heaven

Walking through the National Gallery in London is one of life’s great free pleasures. If you live in London that is. While there, what you tend to overhear most are people proclaiming, “now this one, is REALLY famous”. The truth is, they kind of all are, but some rooms definitely impress more. Room 45 is …

Read more »
kerry day artist plants

Artist Kerry Day moves from humans to plants

Up until recently Bristol based mixed-media artist Kerry Day’s focus has been on rendering the human form. These portraits are seductive, each one of her subjects, often nude, has some oddly arresting feature or presence. We are pleased to see, she has now turned her talents to plants, more specifically pot plants, and mostly cacti …

Read more »
12

Popular Posts

  • 88 free vintage medicinal plant illlustrations
    88 free vintage medicinal plan...
  • Species list for Millais’ Ophelia
    Species list for Millais’...
  • La Primavera’s flowering plant species
    La Primavera’s flowering...
  • The ultimate Californian deserts in bloom photographic road trip 2024
    The ultimate Californian deser...
  • Talking vegetable cartoons of Berger & Wyse
    Talking vegetable cartoons of ...
  • Botticelli’s flowers to Valentino’s dresses via Celia Birtwell
    Botticelli’s flowers to ...
  • Fake flowers tell the truth
    Fake flowers tell the truth
  • Creatives with Plants
    Creatives with Plants
  • Plant in the Room: Magnolia
    Plant in the Room: Magnolia
  • Plant in the room: Narcissus
    Plant in the room: Narcissus
  • What species is Monet’s Bodmer Oak?
    What species is Monet’s ...
  • The Top 5 Identification Guides for UK Wild Plant Photographers
    The Top 5 Identification Guide...
  • Old cacti keep the wow factor
    Old cacti keep the wow factor

About

Plant Curator selectively collects creations to build a digital athenaeum of plant beauty and application in the arts. Designers that work in nature or plant-related fields will find inspiration for design and content here.  Read More

Area of interest

Links

  • Submit to Plant Curator
  • Species naming help
  • Books

Email

Your message was successfully sent. Thank You!

© 2024 plantcurator.com. All Rights Reserved
 

Loading Comments...
 

    We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok