SCHWENKSVILLE — On Saturday, April 6, Pennypacker Mills is hosting a free presentation on botanical illustration. Scientists and artists alike are welcome to stop by the Classroom Building at 1 p.m.
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 ...
From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view of Washington — to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival ...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has been harboring a secret for 40 years, and it’s ready to spill the beans in a big way. Its newest exhibition, Selby’s Secret Garden, showcases the rare and beautiful ...
To simply call Susan Rubin an artist doesn’t really get into her niche. She works mainly in colored pencil, but she isn’t merely a draftswoman, either. Rubin employs an amalgam of color theory, ...
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 ...
A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative ...
A set of replica botanical prints at Encore Consignment Gallery For those of us who love the delicate nature of botanical illustrations, St. Louis is a great place to shop. Whether replicas or ...
Botanical art, botanical illustration and flower painting are not the same thing. The emphasis on scientific accuracy and aesthetic value varies among the three, but they all showcase a plant’s ...