Flora Indica began with an astonishing discovery: More than 7,500 botanical drawings made by Indian artists were lying unnoticed in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

The need for exactness differentiates botanical illustration from more general flower painting. In the hands of a talented botanical artist, however, the illustration goes beyond its scientific ...

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 ...

Maj Gen CS Bewli (Retd) Author Martyn Rix, editor of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine at Kew Gardens, UK, and an accomplished chronicler of botanical art, has created an excellent piece of work by ...

Macoto Murayama can spend months on one of his botanical illustrations, and when he's done, the plant looks like something that blossomed in outer space. First, he dissects his subject with a scalpel, ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were ...

Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...

When Europeans arrived in India, they were dazzled by the subcontinent’s exotic flora and fauna. The colonizers thus started commissioning local artists to paint these. In the absence of the ...

From intricate drawings to films that branch unexpectedly, this show on the all-pervasive influence of the plant kingdom on human imagery brims with ideas, but needs pruning Clicking and clattering, ...

Art imitates nature and vice versa at the Tropical Conservatory Gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens. Nothing appears as it should in “The Nature of Things” exhibit, where a bouquet of flowers is ...