When you hear the word 'artist,' you usually think of someone who paints the colorful pictures hanging in an art museum. But there's a type of artist who specializes in drawing wild plants. This is ...

From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Botanical artist Carolyn Crawford started drawing illustrations of the plant world in 1981. Shortly afterward, the Denver Botanic Gardens featured her work ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I saw the Metropolitan Museum’s stunning show of Ellsworth Kelly’s botanical drawings, I have been ogling ...

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 ...

Margareta Pertl has been a botanical illustrator for 20 years. She lives in Vienna and Dublin, but spends much of her time traveling to places where she can capture the likeness of the plant world. We ...

Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden first launched its Botanica exhibition in 1999, focusing on the often overlooked but historically vital art of painting and drawing plants. Since then, Botanica has ...

They’re posted on fences and sign posts near the New River in Fort Lauderdale; you’ll find them on some Himmarshee Street restaurant counters, too. Amid the historic markers, boisterous eateries and ...

The research group discovered that between the ages of 4 and 7 children are already starting to associate the plant world with the animal world when asked to draw plants. The researchers studied the ...