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 ...

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 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 ...

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 carefully puts a small amount of paint on one ...

Plants, in the American Indian tradition, manifest a power closely intertwined with humans, touching on spiritual and physical health, culture and beauty. Of course, no culture has a lock on the ...

Somewhere in the archive, there is a plant named Primula Inayatii. It was discovered in the north-west Himalayan region — ...

Art is everywhere including in nature. Case in point, the Living Art Festival on Miami Beach, a botanical art installation, that fuses natural elements with artistic creativity. The festival was ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asking Dame Shirley Sherwood how best to use botanical art as decor is roughly equivalent to asking Crystal ...

The world of botanical art in Ireland has lost its finest and most distinguished artist with the recent death of Wendy Walsh, at the age of 98. Born in Cumbria, she was educated at home. As a ...

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 ...