Flourishing: Chinese Chrysanthemum cultivar, from 'The Golden Age of Botanical Art' One of the perks of being a writer who gardens is the books that drop through my letterbox to review. I’m rarely ...

The art of documenting plants and flowers is having a resurgence, with more and more people wanting to draw what they see rather than take photos. Illustrations of native Australian plants and flowers ...

To plant-lovers accustomed to full-color photographs in glossy gardening magazines, the botanical drawings in the recently mounted “Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew” exhibit at first glance may ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Botanical artist Eileen Malone-Brown is seated, bent forward, intently concentrating on a painting she is working on of a green apple with leaves. She ...

The discovery of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) took the art world by storm with the blockbuster exhibition "Paintings for the Future," featuring her 1906 canvases, at the Solomon R.

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

Take a look at a garden or landscape. You probably see some plants. Now focus in on one plant. Depending on the season, you might see stems, leaves, buds, flowers, seeds. You might note spines and ...

When visitors view Kathleen Marie Garness’s botanical illustrations at the Oak Park Conservatory, they are “mesmerized,” said Scott Stewart, the conservatory’s manager. “They don’t believe they are ...

Reproductions of botanical drawings made in the 1840s and 1850s, by several different Indian artists for the East India Company surgeon, and pioneering Forest Conservator, Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).

Danielle Reed of Botanical Sanctuary adjusts a plant to face the light. To her right are long-reaching tools to dig and adjust the plants and soil inside the glass vessels. In a dusty construction ...