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 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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As gardens go to sleep in the week before Christmas, I find sustenance in the current flowering of botanical ...

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 ...

On the occasion of International Museum Day, we present exhibition highlights and curator insights from the Museum of Art and ...

At the Elm Bank Reservation in Wellesley and Dover, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society hosts botanical art classes that teach students to see plants in a new light. Instructor Alice Rosa, whose ...

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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 ...

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 ...