Botanical art - Van Gogh's Olive trees

TPP loves botanical art, and this is just freaking amazing! An artist plants a 1.2 acre plot to recreate a Van Gogh painting. This is simply wonderful!  Mrs. Phactor adds a "Wow! Van Gogh would be proud." Too bad it has to be seen from the air.

Botanical art and endangered species

TPP assumes that many of his readers may like botanical art, and that at least some also care about endangered species. Here's an item from the Association or Society (sorry forgot exactly) of Botanical Artists that may be of interest: paintings of endangered plant species. Get a copy now before the model is gone. 

Turning over a new artistic leaf

The Phactor likes botanical art a lot, and here's a nice example where the medium is botanical, in this case leaves, as best as can be determined, folded and packed into spaces to produce some great looking textures and patterns.  Unfortunately none of these art works look like they will have much lasting power based upon how long parsley lasts in the produce drawer of the fridge. At any rate this art has a certain herbal freshness to it. Enjoy. 

Botanical art

The next best thing to having house plants is having botanical art, or considering the ease of day-to-day care and the consistent attractiveness, maybe the art is even better.  Here's a link to a gallery of Ruth Ana Lyons paintings.  Oh, these will color up your living room wall.  Remember, art does not match your couch, and you don't just hang a single piece centered on the wall.  The Phactors have more than 50 pieces of wall art, much of it sort of botanical, on just the first floor.  This doesn't count the glass or the stoneware.  So get out there an help feed a starving artist.

Botanical Art

Plants have always been good subjects for art because pattern (genetics) combined with variation (environment) yields design.  And of course prior to photography, and for many reasons still superior, botanical illustration was quite significant and a bridge between science and art.  For reasons still unclear in his mind TPP minored in art, which was somewhat unusual for a biology major, but having limited artistic talent, this interest was turned toward acquiring whatever art attracted my attention.  Funny, TPP never set out to be an art "collector", but after awhile it sort of accumulates and why before you know it you have a collection, a big collection, and yes, a great many have a botanical theme.  Of the many things TPP likes about his second home Australia, one is that they have a great tradition of natural history art.  One of TPP's prized possessions is a print by Leslie van der Sluys (google him to see examples of his work), and since his untimely and recent death his prints are getting harder to find and pricier.  They are stunning B&W prints each hand colored.  So naturally it came as no surprise to find that an online clearing house for botanical art had Australia as its base although botanical art from many countries is represented.  This water color of lotus so brazenly displayed here is the work of another Australian artist, Jenny Phillips, whose work TPP saw at a recent botanical congress in Melbourne.  Yes, TPP is tempted to buy this piece, but his art allowance has been sort of depleted of late. 

Floral Art

This is extremely cool. Flowers, in shades of white to green, clustered into fields, floral pointalism, a mosaic of flowers, and the effect is really nifty. What kinds of flowers are being used here? Chrysanthemums? Wonder how they get each and every flower to be in position just so? Unfortunately this is from a photo image site, so no information hardly at all about the image except the floral show at Ghent. How big do you suppose the circle is? About 40 flowers across, maybe 5 cm per flower, so 2 meters?

Botanical Street Art

Often it's strange how non-botanists depict plants especially flowers and leaves. So often they seem so ordinary, so plain, so here's a bit of kinetic street art, plants sprouting from an art gallery's marquee and their flowers pin-wheeling and leaves flapping in the breeze. Wouldn't that be a cool pollen dispersal mechanism? And if you decide you want to see this, you might be able if attending next year's international botanical congress.