“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...
Jane explores an exhibition of botanical art to learn about how talented artists create highly detailed works while representing botanically accurate plants. Sue Foran, the curator of the exhibition, ...
They say a picture tells a thousand words. But in the case of botanical art it’s fair to say that it’s probably far more than that, as proven by a magnificent new book Drawn from Nature: The Flowering ...