Botanical arts Books
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical
Book SynopsisThe Cleghorn Collection reproduces more than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection in colour, for the first time. These include drawings from nature, copies based on European prints, and Nature Prints made from herbarium specimens. They are the work of several South Indian artists and of pupils of the pioneering Madras School of Art.
£19.00
The Crowood Press Ltd Understanding the Flowering Plants: A Practical
Book SynopsisTo study a plant in detail is to make a fascinating journey of discovery. Even plants we think we know well will often surprise us as we look at the intricacy of their structure and how they are put together. This fascinating guide explains what flowering plants are and their relationship to other groups of plants. With drawings, paintings and photographs throughout, it advises on how to carry out a botanical study and will prove essential reading for botanical artists, photographers and all those wishing to gain a greater understanding of flowering plants.
£27.00
Search Press Ltd Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour
Book SynopsisBilly Showell is a well-respected botanical watercolour artist, and her exceptional eye for detail and ability to re-create the form, texture, colour and patterning of a wide range of plants have earned her a formidable reputation worldwide. Her compositions are given a contemporary, sometimes playful twist, while retaining all the beauty and accuracy of traditional botanical paintings. In this inspiring and indispensable guide for botanical artists, she reveals the materials, methods and techniques she uses to attain her stunningly beautiful portraits of flowers, fruit and vegetables. There is expert guidance on tools and materials, working from life, observation, and drawing and painting techniques, as well as detailed sections on pattern, texture, and colour and colour mixing. With numerous step-by-step studies, close-up photographs and examples of Billy's exquisite paintings, this book is not only packed full of invaluable advice and information but also a visually stunning showcase for the work of this amazing artist.Trade ReviewDec 2016 Billy Showell has written a number of books on flower painting but these have so far concentrated on the less formal flower portrait. Where this one differs is that is approaches it entirely from the technical side. You'll look in vain for specific examples. As well as avoiding repeating what has already been said, this method fills the inevitable void left by the specimen-led way of working. It is not, however, a primer in flower painting. For all the attention given to negative shapes, brushwork and colour mixing, this is not a book for the complete beginner. In order to tackle the discipline of botanical illustration, you need to be competent and confident with your style and your materials. Informative, practical and rewarding, this meets a long-felt need. * The Artist *This is a beautifully presented book, lovely to look at, but even better than that every page is full of clearly written, simple to understand information and techniques about the subject. It covers everything from the choice and use of materials to a range of drawing and painting skills which cover every technique one would need to paint any type of plant or flower. The techniques for handling watercolour, the flow etc would be useful for anyone learning to use this medium in any form, not just botanical paintings. I found the section on colour mixing particularly good and very comprehensive, especially the mixing blacks chapter. It is one of the few books which actually acknowledges that mistakes happen, even to the best, and explains various methods of correction, and also that it takes practice to achieve these type of results. I wish it had been available when I started with botanical illustration several years ago, I think life would have been a bit easier, in short its a fabulous book, extremely informative and beautiful to look at. * Anne Chalkley *A beautiful and comprehensive book for both beginners in botanic art and for the more experienced artist. There is something here for everyone. Billy Showell has produced beautifully illustrated examples throughout the book accompanied by explicit text with highlighted tips and hints. The introductory chapters allow the novice artist to identify the materials needed and to use them as a course in developing botanical painting skills. The chapter on troubleshooting is helpful too and especially for the beginner. The more experienced artist will find it an essential reference book for observation techniques and ideas on composition. Colour mixing is explained in detail and forms the largest section of the book and could be produced as a separate book in its own right. Techniques with identified examples for painting detail, texture and patterns are included and ideas on multiple flowerheads as well as methods for painting from photographs. The glossary is useful and the index logical so that specific topics are easy to find. The principles and practices described and illustrated could be applied at any level to all water colour artists This is an essential book on any artists bookshelf! * Mary-Christine Levett *Stunning and beautiful book – I love it! Yet another stunning addition to my Billy Showell collection and an absolute must for anyone with a desire to master botanical paining. Highly recommended and well worth the money. I was so excited to receive this book and I have certainly not been disappointed. This is a beautifully presented book with stunning art work. Every single page offers hints, tips and techniques with an amazing level of detail. Whilst it shows some more advanced techniques, beginners should not be put off and the help and ideas offered is exemplary. I can’t wait to try out some of the new ideas offered such as using lifting preparation and I absolutely love the colour mixing charts. * Hazel Walters *Discover many step-by-step studies in this wonderful book, illustrated throughout and learn how to paint the plants you love - there is a wide range of flowers, foliage, fruits and combinations of flowers. The Contents include Getting Started, Working From Life, Observation, Drawing, Using a Brush, Painting Techniques, Troubleshooting, Painting Detail, Adding Pattern, Creating Texture, Painting Multi-Headed Flowers, Painting From Enlarged Photographs, Colour and Colour Mixing, Composition and Stretching and Finishing. It provides tips and techniques throughout such as how to keep stems fresh when painting from life. This book is like a how-to of all the things you have ever wanted to paint - how to remove a bloom for instance or how to create a prickly surface or which brush to use. The medley of daffodils is fabulous and the purple and blacks are sumptuously captured. A great guide for all who love botanical painting. * Karen Platt -yarnsandfabrics.co.uk *Exquisitely presented and beautifully painted, if you ever wanted something to encourage you to start botanical painting, this would be it. For such a specialist, technical subject there’s a surprising number of books on botanical art. I’m not talking about flower painting in general – there are even more of those! – but ones that specifically identify themselves as belonging to the genus of scientific representation. We could quibble over how many are actually that deeply technical. In its pure form, botanical illustration is used to aid identification and has very specific requirements. For a start, you don’t paint a single example, but rather include specific characteristics that a worker in the field would look for. This may then be used to identify an existing species in an unknown location, or maybe a new one altogether. I’ve always divided botanical art into three genres. We start with flower painting, where the purpose is to produce something that looks like what it’s meant to represent without necessarily getting every petal perfect, and where the flower itself may not be the main subject. Then there’s the flower portrait (Billy Showell’s previous speciality), where detail becomes more important and the subject may be a single stem. Finally, there’s botanical illustration, which we dealt with above. This book adds, I think, a new dimension: botanical art that goes into considerable detail, but isn’t obsessed with total scientific accuracy and can be a record of the single example you have in front of you. As such, it’s ideally suited to the artist who isn’t a scientist but nevertheless enjoys at least some of the perfectionism that goes with full-on illustration. The book is a joy to handle and very thoroughly illustrated, going into plenty of detail regarding the stages of completing a painting. This includes not only step-by-steps, but also examples and technical exercises that deal with things like water droplets – which are well outside scientific work. It’s inspiring, enjoyable and very thorough. * Artbookreview.net *Table of ContentsIntroduction 6 Materials 8 Getting started 18 Working from life 20 Observation 22 Drawing 28 Using a brush 44 Painting techniques 54 Troubleshooting 82 Painting detail 88 Adding pattern 110 Creating texture 118 Painting multi-headed flowers 130 Painting from enlarged photographs 136 Colour and colour mixing 140 Composition 178 Stretching and finishing 186 Glossary 190 Index 191
£16.99
The Natural History Museum The Flora Collection
Book Synopsis50 colour botanical postcards stored in a chunky keepsake box.
£13.25
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Botanical Art from India: The Royal Botanic
Book SynopsisThe links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India go back for two and a half centuries. Surgeons who had studied botany at the Garden laid the foundations of western knowledge of the Indian flora. Supplementing their written plant descriptions with botanical drawings, commissioned from Indian artists, they established collections which survive today at Edinburgh, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This book tells the story of these collections, reproducing a selection of 86 exquisite, original drawings – including examples made in all three of the Presidencies (administrative units) of British India (Bombay, Bengal and Madras), between 1770 and 1860.
£28.50
Dewi Lewis Media Ltd 500 Flowers
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£14.24
Page Street Publishing Co. Flowerscape in Paradise: A Tropical Coloring Book
Book SynopsisIndulge Your Wanderlust by Coloring Lush Tropical Florals. Step into a vibrant, colourful paradise with this collection of stunning designer illustrations inspired by tropical destinations from around the world. Relax and let your unique artistic creativity shine as you colour designs overflowing with captivating botanicals, bold geometric patterns, rainforest birds and sea creatures. Let your colouring vacation begin.
£16.19
Page Street Publishing Co. Ink and Wash Florals: Stunning Botanical Projects
Book SynopsisCombining her passion for teaching with her mastery of both mediums, Camilla Damsbo Brix introduces budding artists to the whimsical beauty of watercolor, with the definition that ink offers, through 22 step-by-step floral compositions so exquisite they won’t believe how easy they are to make. Camilla gives insight into the respective fundamentals of ink and wash through basic techniques and preparatory sketches, where artists will learn crucial things like the difference between wet on wet and wet on dry, varying lines while inking, observational sketching of flowers and capturing harmonious floral compositions. Additionally, with a chapter entirely dedicated to sharing art with loved ones and with a larger artistic community, everyone will be well on their way to confidently and consistently blossoming in their practice. With Camilla’s gentle guidance, readers will be inking and painting classics like roses, lilacs and daisies, as well as annual beauties like dahlias, cosmos and sunflowers and lesser-known species like plumerias, gerberas and hellebores. This book has something for everyone, be it watercolor lovers trying to explore ink and vice versa, beginners wishing to grasp the intricacies of mixed media, or artists looking to strengthen their skills with elegant compositions they can proudly display. This book contains 22 projects and 22 photographs plus step-by-steps.
£17.09
Transcript Verlag The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life
Book SynopsisThe symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance for religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?
£41.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Victorian Fern Craze Shire Library 571
Book SynopsisFern Fever was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. This book looks at the how the craze developed, the ways in which ferns were incorporated into garden and home, and the spread of the fern through Victorian material and visual culture.
£8.99
Flame Tree Publishing Adult Jigsaw Puzzle Bex Parkin Cactus Garden
Book SynopsisNew title in exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art and providing a challenge for adult puzzlers of all levels!Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with Bex Parkin''s Cactus Garden. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference.Bex Parkin is an incredibly talented illustrator. Having spent many years based in London working in a range of artistic jobs, she now lives in rural Staffordshire. Her passion for print, pattern and colour was largely inspired by her work sourcing vintage and antique textiles for the fashion industry, which can be
£999.99
The Crowood Press Ltd The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Botanical Illustrator's Handbook takes a closer look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. It tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists encounter so they can extend and expand their choice of subject matter. Written by a respected artist and drawing on her wealth of experience, it offers new insights and a fresh approach to the wonders of botanical illustration. Topics covered include: advice on the labelling and quality of paper, and choice of pencils, paints and brushes; techniques for the mixing and handling of greens; chapters on magnification, managing detail and using scale bars; and finally, instructions for using perspective techniques, and painting complex structures such as pine cones and umbellifers, and tricky details such as hairs.
£16.14
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Peonies
Book SynopsisLush, full, and incredibly beautiful, the peony is one of the most magnificent flowers adorning our gardens. It saddens enthusiasts of this beauty that it is quite rare. Depending on the variety, its blooming period is limited to a few weeks between May and June. However, when the peony finally decides to unfurl its bud, it practically explodes, presenting a bombastic display of fully filled blossoms that delights peony lovers in ecstatic admiration.Now, all friends of this lavish ornamental plant can rejoice, because for the long wait between blooms, the photo book Floramour: Peonies offers a replacement that is unparalleled. The concept of this extraordinary book series envisions a new and comprehensive approach to this aesthetically pleasing plant.In addition to photographs in intoxicating colours and delicate details, author Anja Klaffenbach imparts fascinating botanical knowledge and a skilful overview of the cultural history of this magn
£23.96
Headline Publishing Group Paperscapes The Flower Garden the book that
Book SynopsisBotanical illustrations accompany text by nature writer and botanist Michael Scott. Press-out sections enable you to reveal the outlines of the flowers and transform your book into a work of art. Table of ContentsPress-out illustrations of over 50 species of flower from across the globe, each accompanied by approx. 250 to 300 words of descriptive text.
£18.00
Quarto Publishing PLC Urban Botanics
Book SynopsisA stunning, lifestyle guide to indoor plants, including: flowering, cacti, succulents and foliage. With illustrations by Maaike Koster and authoritative text by Emma Sibley.Table of ContentsIntroduction Succulents Cacti Flowering Plants Foliage Plants
£12.34
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers and Native
Book SynopsisA Delicate Art highlights the paintings and photography of six artists in Alberta who with passion and long moments of observation have made an inspired contribution to wildflower art. Covering a period of one hundred years to the present, the story behind these creators Mary Schäffer Warren, Mary Vaux Walcott, William Copeland McCalla, Annora Brown, Robert Sinclair and Carole Harmon is also told. A blend of biography, botanical and regional art history and commentary by the artists themselves about their treasured subject, A Delicate Art is intended for the lay reader and is accompanied by sumptuous reproductions of the artwork and an alluring overall design that will appeal to anyone interested in art, mountain-life and gardening.
£22.09
Roli Books Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History
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£33.20
Green Writers Press A Year In Nature: A Memoir of Solace
Book SynopsisAfter writing twelve books over a period of forty years, I said I was finished. However, my life and the life around me has changed and I felt it time to offer to people pages from my own personal nature journals which have been my guides and deep sources for both learning and solace since I began writing books, back in l978. I decided to publish a book that is not instructive or text heavy. Beginning with the Winter Solstice and going through the twelve months of the year, I have chosen one hundred twenty -two pages from my own illustrated/hand written journals of the last three years revealing my reflections, doubts, joys, responses to both family, political, environmental worries and the deep solace I continually find going out into my local nature. As both urban and rural naturalist, educator, wife, mother, grandmother I open my journal pages as they are personal yet universal to all of us as we question our own lives in balance with the ongoing and continual cycles of nature's seasons.
£19.76
Sydney University Press Beaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands
Book SynopsisBeaches of the Tasmanian Coast and Islands covers the beaches of the Tasmanian coast, together with those on Maria, Bruny, King, Robbins, Walker and Flinders islands - in all, 1,617 beaches spread along 3,030 km of coast. This book has two aims. First, to provide the public with general information on the origin and nature of all Tasmania's beaches, including the contribution of geology, oceanography, climate and biota to the beaches, and information on beach hazards and safety. Second, to provide a description of each beach, including its name(s), location, access, facilities, dimensions and the character of the beach and surf zone. The book comments on the suitability of the beach for bathing, surfing and fishing, with special emphasis on the natural hazards. Based on the physical hazards, all beaches are rated in terms of public safety and scaled from 1 (least hazardous) to 10 (most hazardous).Trade Review'The seven books in the series sponsored by the Australian Beach Safety and Management Program (ABSMP) constitute the single most comprehensive beach database in the world ... It is rare to find a treasure of scientific and technical information that is available and comprehensible to scientists and lay persons alike ... It is thus without reservation that I recommend all books in the Beaches of Australia series' -- Charles W. Finkl -- Journal of Coastal ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abstract Tasmanian coast Beach systems Beach hazards and safety Tasmanian beaches Glossary References Beach index General index Surf index
£37.59
Brill Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant’s fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.Trade Review"The emergence of the botanical from quiet, passive existence that constantly hums around us to active/interactive politicization on gallery walls, in installations, and in critical studies is so potent that it has become a full-fledged art movement. This book both unravels and invites an artistic reimagining of the human relationship to plants, in all its manifestations. [...] in light of the ongoing environmental crisis, the book is invaluable. [... It] could not be more timely." - J. Natal, Columbia College Chicago, in: Choice Magazine, Vol. 57 No. 1 (September 2019) "In sum, Why Look at Plants? is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of the arts in considering human/non-human interactions, plant blindness, posthumanist thought, or the myriad implications of the Anthropocene." - Stephen Goddard, in: Esse, issue 99 (2020), p. 111.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors About This Book Introduction: Why Look at Plants? Giovanni Aloi Part 1: Forest 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest Giovanni Aloi 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role Caroline Picard 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah Natasha Myers 4 An Open Book of Grass Jenny Kendler Part 2: Trees 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving Giovanni Aloi 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun & DNA Lucy Davis 7 Tree Wound Portraits Shannon Lee Castleman 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground Greg Lee Ruffing 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 Lindsey French Part 3: Garden 10 Falling from Grace Giovanni Aloi 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind Wendy Wheeler 12 Eden’s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature Joela Jacobs 13 Thoreau’s Beans Michael Marder Part 4: Greenhouse 14 The Greenhouse Effects Giovanni Aloi 15 Solarise Luftwerk 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin’s Glasshouse Study Heidi Norton 17 The Lichen Museum Laurie Palmer Part 5: Store 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life Giovanni Aloi 19 Life in the Aisles Linda Tegg 20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants Various Contributors Part 6: House 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With Giovanni Aloi 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects Susan McHugh 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other Dawn Sanders 25 Plant Radio Amanda White Part 7: Laboratory 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics Giovanni Aloi 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies Monika Bakke 28 Boundary Plants Sara Black 29 The Illustrated Herbal Tova Flores Index Part 8: Of Other Spaces 30 (Brief) Encounters Giovanni Aloi 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast Andrew Yang 32 The Neophyte Lois Weinberger 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin Bibliography Index
£56.80
Tuttle Publishing Origami Paper 100 sheets Japanese Flowers 6 15 cm
Book SynopsisThis origami paper pack contains 100 high-quality origami sheets printed with 12 different natural-looking and attractive Japanese flower patterns and prints. The handmade look of this paper was selected to enhance the creative work of modular origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains prints unique to this package, and each sheet has a solid coordinating color on the back side. This origami paper pack includes: 100 sheets of high-quality origami paper 12 colorful Japanese-style designs and patternsDouble-sided color 6 x 6 inch (15 cm) squaresInstructions for 5 easy origami projectsThere's enough paper here to create beautiful folded models, distribute to students for a class project, or put to a multitude of other creative uses from scrapbooking to bullet journaling!
£8.64
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Director's Choice
Book SynopsisThe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is one of Scotland's most visited tourist attractions and has been cultivating and studying plants for over three centuries. Across its four garden sites, the Royal Botanic Garden's living plant collection contains over 13,500 species from 156 countries, including some that are extinct in the wild and others new to science. The ever-growing Herbarium currently contains over three million dried specimens and the Library houses Scotland's national collection of botanical and horticultural literature, including manuscripts dating back to the fifteenth century. The highlights illustrated in this book provide a personal insight into one of the world's greatest botanic gardens and reveals the invaluable contribution that it makes to the ongoing documentation and conservation of the world's diverse plant life.
£9.45
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers
Book SynopsisThis stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers lavishly showcases a meadow’s worth of familiar plants in 40 botanical paintings. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers is a celebration of the natural bounty around us, offering a meadow’s worth of familiar plants including foxgloves, poppies, dandelion, ivy, daisy, bluebells and orchids, and many more. 40 delightful botanical paintings from the Kew archives depict these classic plants.
£13.00
Yale University Press Flora Illustrata
Book SynopsisAn exquisitely illustrated volume in celebration of the world's foremost library of botanical worksTrade Review"Flora Illustrata is a treat for the eyes."—Julie Lasky, New York Times"Both handsome and informative. . . . I only wish the book were even longer."—Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review"Bound to delight your favorite gardener."—Vogue"Richly informative, visually stunning. . . . This enchanting collection is a comprehensive resource on the history, science, and art of botany, and an object of beauty in itself."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"The style is accessible, convincing and even humorous. . . . This desirable book conveys the message that a botanic garden is a place both for research and horticultural activity, and demonstrates the age-old intertwining of books and botanic gardens."—Liz Taylor, the Garden“A sumptuously illustrated compendium in which international experts introduce us to some of the most fascinating works held by the renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden”—Sandy Simpson, The Falkirk HeraldWinner of the 2015 American Horticultural Society's Book AwardWinner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award for 2015"Equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is unquestionably one of the great treasures of the world. Flora Illustrata reveals with stunning scholarship the deeply intertwined history of plants, science, and humanity. Rich and fascinating beyond imagination and now accessible to anyone. A triumph of a book."—Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University"As a synthetic grouping, Flora Illustrata is an important and useful contribution. The essays are rich, and are accompanied by some wonderful illustrations. This is a lavish book, successful in its objectives, and useful to a wide audience."—Daniel Lewis, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens"An erudite and sumptuous exploration of the timeless fascination of people with plants, which along the way reveals the origins of one of the world's great botanical gardens."—Peter Crane, author of Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden is surely the greatest research botanical library in the world, a precious repository of knowledge from cultures all over the world and spanning from the 12th century to the 21st. Plants—from which we ultimately derive all of our food, building materials, and medicines—are also a source of great beauty and wonder. Flora Illustrata celebrates all this, and speaks of an intimate relationship between art and science. It is equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks
£40.38
University of Nebraska Press The Forgotten Botanist
Book SynopsisThe Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a little-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon. Trade Review"In this attentive and richly researched portrait, writer Wynne Brown honors not just Plummer Lemmon's many accomplishments but her verve and courage."—Tess Joosse, Scientific American"Brown weaves together research in newspaper accounts, personal letters, field notes, photographs, and other personal papers to create a remarkable, intimate biography of a fascinating woman."—R. C. Hedreen, Choice"[The Forgotten Botanist] is a memorable account of an accomplished life."—Publishers Weekly“Richly details Plummer Lemmon’s life of pluck and inquisitiveness that led to grand, sometimes harrowing, adventures and discoveries.”—Beth Surdut, Desert Leaf "I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the contribution of women to the field of botany, but also to anyone who wants to read a fascinating and memorable tale of life as a botanist in the 19th century. Sara will come alive for you on these pages. Hopefully, her days of being a forgotten botanist may finally be in the past."—Amy Boyd, Plant Science Bulletin"The Forgotten Botanist is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage—and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time."—Mary Sauers, NCompass blog“The history of botany is filled with intrepid, brilliant women, but few have gotten their due. Wynne Brown has written a lively life of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a brave nineteenth-century botanist who explored the West. She earned the admiration of the great botanists of her day, and she deserves ours as well.”—Victoria Johnson, author of American Eden“In this long overdue biography of Sara Lemmon, Wynne Brown restores an overlooked luminary of the Southwest to her proper place in history. Brimming with narrative verve and a naturalist’s eye for detail, The Forgotten Botanist is a vivid account of how one woman overcame great odds to help shape western botany.”—Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes the River“A stirring and intimate portrait of an unconventional, resourceful, and adventurous transplant to the American West.”—Susan Cummins Miller, editor of A Sweet, Separate Intimacy“Using botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon’s copious letters to family and friends, author Wynne Brown delves into Lemmon’s hopes and successes as well as her challenges and disappointments as she and her botanist husband pursued undescribed plants throughout the West.”—Carolyn Niethammer, author of A Desert FeastTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Prologue: New York Harbor, December 1869 1. “Now I Am at the Jumping Off Place”: San Francisco, 1870 2. “Perhaps You’ve Heard Our Sadie Was Killed”: Santa Barbara, 1870 3. “It Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle”: Santa Barbara, 1871–76 4. “A Great Botanist from the Sierras”: Michigan, the Civil War, and Northern California, 1832–76 5. “My Dear, Soul-Knit Brother”: Santa Barbara and Sierra Valley, 1876–77 6. “Into the Matrimonial Vortex!”: Santa Barbara and Oakland, 1877–80 7. “Try to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina”: Southern Arizona, Spring 1881 8. “An Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life”: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881 9. “Eleven Days of Dungeon Life”: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881 10. “Happy in Our Work & in Each Other”: Oakland, 1881–82 11. “Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town”: Southern Arizona, Summer 1882 12. “A Botanical Paradise”: Southern Arizona, Summer–Fall 1882 13. “Considered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season’s Work”: Oakland and Southern Arizona, 1882–83 14. “Lives Cast in Pleasant Places”: Northern Arizona and New Mexico, 1884 15. “Grandest Display the World Has Ever Known”: New Orleans and New England, 1884–85 16. “Our Hillock in Cholame”: Near San Luis Obispo, California, 1885–87 17. “Life, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year”: Oakland and Mexico, 1887–88 18. “The Narrowest Escape from Instant Death”: Oakland, 1888–91 19. “Sell Everything and Move to California!”: Oakland and Chicago, 1891–93 20. “A Sweet, Sacred Togetherness”: Oakland and Mexico, 1894–98 21. “Wish We Were Out in the Wild Woods”: Oakland and Arizona, 1899–1903 22. “Safe—Tho’ Tremendously Shaken”: Arizona and Oakland, 1903–6 23. “I Feel So Helpless and Alone”: Oakland, 1906–12 24. “Partners in Botany”: Oakland, 1908–23 Epilogue Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography
£19.79
The Chinese University Press Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated guide presents a carefully curated collection of 20 plant species native to Hong Kong, with scientific, detailed pen and ink illustrations and morphological descriptions, providing important reference materials for species authentication. Of the 20 species selected, 15 are rare and endangered species, making this guide of special importance for plant preservation in Hong Kong, as well as for botanists, plant lovers, and illustrators. This is the first volume of Shiu?Ying Hu Herbarium Scientific Illustration Series.Trade ReviewWith its numerous beautiful botanical illustrations and informative details of plant morphological features, this book is a remarkable addition to Hong Kong's botanical science collection and flora conservation work. Through this novel approach in integrating botanical knowledge in STEAM education, this book will open the eyes of our citizens, especially the younger generation, and raise their interest and awareness in plants, and contribute to promoting biodiversity conservation in Hong Kong.""-Jenny Y. Y. LAU, Curator of Hong Kong Herbarium, Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department""To see these beautiful illustrations, the photos and the commentary about the plants that accompany them makes us wish that all of the rich and diverse flora of Hong Kong could be treated similarly.""-David E. Boufford, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard University Herbaria & Editorial Committee Member of Flora of ChinaTable of Contents Alsophila spinulosa (Wall. ex Hook.) R. M. Tryon Illicium dunnianum Tutcher Michelia chapensis Dandy Artabotrys hongkongensis Hance Paris polyphylla var. chinensis (Franch.) H. Hara Iris speculatrix Hance Rhodoleia championii Hook. Dalbergia assamica Benth. Dalbergia candenatensis (Dennst.) Prain Polygala hongkongensis Hemsl. Artocarpus hypargyreus Hance ex Benth. Sapindus saponaria L. Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng. Lysimachia alpestris Champ. ex Benth. Camellia oleifera C. Abel Rhododendron simsii Planch. Pavetta hongkongensis Bremek. Oroxylum indicum (L.) Benth. ex Kurz Ilex rotunda var. microcarpa (Lindl. ex Paxton) S. Y. Hu Eleutherococcus trifoliatus (L.) S. Y. Hu
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Editorial Gg Árboles En El Arte
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£17.95
Taylor & Francis Empire Gender and Biogeography
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Page Street Publishing Co. Botanical Escape: 40 Beautiful Tracing Projects
Book SynopsisEnjoy the Meditative Act of Tracing as You Create Stunning Floral Artwork Take a deep breath, get out your favorite pen and ease into the tranquil process of tracing these gorgeous and modern botanical illustrations. Renowned artist Anna Oszvald brings you 40 breathtaking drawing projects designed for you to trace over and bring to life right in the pages of this book, thanks to the sturdy high quality art paper. As you draw over Anna's lines, you'll get comfortable with the motion and rhythm of sketching while seamlessly creating delicate florals, lush greenery and other wonders of the natural world one stroke at a time. Here's how each project works: The left-hand side of the page has tutorials that teach you how to capture all those minor details, like the graceful folds of a daisy's petal or dense complexity of a passionflower's center. The right-hand side has the illustration in full waiting for you to breathe life into it with your newfound skill. And thanks to the relaxing medium of tracing, there's no pressure! Simply follow the lines and get lost in the natural beauty as you unwind from the stresses of the day. You can even take these drawings one step further and color them in with marker, watercolor paints or any medium you like. In addition to these 40 projects, you'll find 10 bonus tear-out pages to hang on your wall, give as a gift or frame and keep forever. Take a stroll through Anna's beautiful garden as you hone your drawing skills with each calming stroke of your pen.
£16.14
Page Street Publishing Co. Paint-by-Number Botanicals: The Easy, Relaxing
Book SynopsisExperience the joy of painting with this innovative workbook where contemporary design meets the paint-by-number method you know and love from your childhood. All 30 numbered outlines are printed on high-quality, smooth, thick, single-sided art paper that’s ideal for acrylic paint. Ranging from lovely garden flowers such as peonies, dahlias, sunflowers, and roses to lush orange blossom branches and monstera leaves, each botanical painting features soft color palettes to soothe your mind with the beauty of nature. The method is simple: Just tear out the numbered design along the perforated edging, follow the colour map included, and feel your stress melt away as a masterpiece blooms effortlessly beneath your brush.
£17.09
Reaktion Books The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of
Book SynopsisIn a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions and influence others, botanical illustration is about creating technically accurate depictions of plants. Reproductions of centuries-old botanical illustrations frequently adorn greetings cards, pottery and advertising, to promote heritage or generate income, yet their art is scientific: its purpose is to record, display and transmit scientific data. The Beauty of the Flower shows us how scientific botanical illustrations are collaborations among artists, scientists and publishers. It explores the evolution and interchanges of these illustrations since the mid-fifteenth century, the ways in which they have been used to communicate scientific ideas about plants and how views of botanical imagery change. Featuring unique images rarely seen outside of specialist literature this book reveals the fascinating stories behind these remarkable illustrations.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Plant and Page Chapter 2: Themes and Trends Chapter 3: Science and Illustration Chapter 4: Blood and Treasure Chapter 5: Garden and Grove Chapter 6: Inside and Out Chapter 7: Habit and Habitat Chapter 8: Observe and Test Chapter 9: Sweat and Tears Appendix: Plant Names References Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
£37.21
Dietrich Reimer Seraphine Louis: 1864-1942
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Inszenierung Des Heimischen: Reformarchitektur
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Darwin Y La Botanica
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