A major celebration of 300 years of Australian botanical art will be held at the Art Gallery of Ballarat beginning September 25, 2012. The exhibition Capturing Flora: 300 Years of Australian Botanical Art will take visitors through a historical journey of how Australia’s amazing and diverse flora have been recorded, interpreted and popularized by botanical [...]
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Get Ready to Celebrate 300 Years of Botanical Art
Posted in Special Events, botanical art, botanical illustration, general botany, Special Announcements, tagged botanical art, exhibition, Australia, art gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Botanical Art Exhibition in New York’s Hudson Valley
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged botanical art, CSA, exhibition, New York on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Artist and teacher, Wendy Hollender, will host a exhibition of botanical art on May 19 at Hollengold Farm, her organic farm located in the Hudson Valley in New York. This exhibition will feature the artwork of Carol Woodin, Paul Harwood and Wendy Hollender. Meet the artists and learn about the summer workshops each will teach [...]
Exhibition of Botanical Drawings at The Gallery London
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged art gallery, exhibition, London on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Originally trained in botany, Alison Day transitioned into a more creative lifestyle by training at Goldsmiths College and The London Metropolitan University. A former photographer, Alison returned to drawing after an accident left her studio bound for a considerable time. An artist for over 20 years, Alison’s drawings and paintings reflect a love for, and [...]
Community-focused Gallery Opens with ‘Botanize’ Exhibition
Posted in botanical art, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged arts education, botany, Louisiana on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Botanize Garcia.Dunn Covington, LA Opens April 21, 2012 A very different kind of gallery will open this weekend in Covington, Louisiana. Actually, it’s not a gallery but a “live art home store” whose focus is to provide opportunities to “view living space as art and art as a natural part of daily life”. Artists Meghan [...]
Botanical Artist Participates in Exhibition Recognizing Virginia Painters
Posted in botanical art, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged Virginia Watercolor Society on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
33rd Virginia Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition Hampton, VA April 15 – May 27, 2012 Botanical artist Linda C. Miller, is one of the artists participating in the 33rd annual juried exhibition of the Virginia Watercolor Society (VWS) now on view at The Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia. This premier exhibition of watercolor [...]
Edible Plants Focus of New Botanical Art Exhibition
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged art gallery, colored pencil, Florida, graphite, Plants, silverpoint, Watercolor on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Edible Plants Illustrated Florida Society of Botanical Artists Venice Art Center Venice, Florida April 9 – May 3, 2012 The Florida Society of Botanical Artists invite you to their new exhibition! Botanical art is enjoying a renaissance and, although it often depicts far-flung marvels of the botanical world, this juried exhibition of fifteen contemporary practitioners [...]
Call for Entries: Plants Native to the Mid-Atlantic
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, general botany, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged books, botanical art, call for entries on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Bonnie S. Driggers Botanical Artists for Education and the Environment (BAEE), a group of botanical artists primarily in the Mid-Atlantic area of the US, have undertaken a project to publish a book of paintings about native plants. Because the destruction of native plants continues at an alarming rate, we hope our book will increase [...]
The Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators Exhibit at the Station Gallery
Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged art gallery, Delaware, flowers, Philadelphia on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spring Show for The Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators The Station Gallery Greenville, DE April 9-28, 2012 The Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators (PSBI) invite you to their annual juried exhibition! Beginning today, thirty-six paintings by twenty artists will be on view at The Station Gallery in Greenville, Delaware. An opening reception will be held [...]
New Exhibition Dedicated to Botanical Art in Colored Pencil
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged art gallery, botanical art, california, colored pencil, library on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Drawing Nature: Botanical Art in Colored Pencil is now on view at the Mahoney Library Gallery on the Santa Rosa Junior College Petaluma Campus. This exhibition opened on April 2 and continues through May 25, 2012. Drawing Nature is a group exhibition of botanical art created by students of Nina Antze, a member of the [...]
‘The Magnified Eye’, Plants on Paper & Vellum
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged botanical art exhibition, fine art, new jersey on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday, the Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit, NJ revealed The Magnified Eye: Contemporary Botanical Portraiture in collaboration with Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper, LLC. This new exhibition features the work of fifteen international artists who have used various techniques and media to create their drawings and paintings of plants. Visitors can study each [...]





