Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire” confront the imperial roots of its botanical collections and challenge long-held ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...

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 ...

The Botanical Artist is a 36-page 4-color journal published quarterly by the American Society of Botanical Artists, a non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the tradition and contemporary ...

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 ...

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

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 ...

African artists are making waves in the world of botanical art, adding their own unique touch to the centuries-old tradition ...

A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art Show in February. The artists — 10 ...