Botanical Art - Resources for Artists
Do you want to learn more about Botanical Art?
This site shares information about botanical art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the development of botanical art. It also links to leading botanical artists in the past and present. Its subject matter will interest botanical fine art enthusiasts, students of botanical art and/or art history, botanists or plant scientists, art historians, artists/botanical artists and art and plant lovers.

A History of Botanical Art - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers
An introduction to the history of botanical art and botanical illustration
This site shares information about the history of botanical art and illustration - leading botanical artists of the past, collections - in museums and online, exhibitions, books and book reviews and other resources for those interested in the history of botanical art. Its subject matter will interest botanical fine art enthusiasts, students of botanical art and/or art history, botanists or plant scientists, art historians, artists/botanical artists and art and plant lovers. Two more sites o...

About Basilius Besler - Famous Botanical Artist
Introducing Basilius Besler (1561-1629)
Basilius Besler was in charge of a major project which changed botanical art and the course of its future development. Find about Basilius Besler, the garden at Eichsttt and learn how you can visit that garden today. This site includes links to biographies and books about his life and work. Plus online galleries and exhibitions which display his work. This site will be of interest to all botanical artists and all those who enjoy botanical art and natural history.All images used have been so...

Makingamark's Botanical Art Compendium
A Compendium about Botanical Art and Botanical Artists
This is a compendium of all the sites about botanical artists and botanical art created by makingamark (Katherine Tyrrell) as resources for both artists and botanical art lovers. Some were artists who were associated with explorations and the discovery of new flora and fauna * Marian Sybilla Merian journeyed to Surinam * Sydney Parkinson was the botanical artist on board captain Cook's first voyage to South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia * Ferdinand Bauer travelled around the...

About Georg Dionysius Ehret - Famous Botanical Artist
Introducing Georg Dionysius Ehret 1708-1770
Georg Dionysius Ehret was a German-born artist who became one of the most influential botanical artists of all time through his development of the Linnaean style of botanical illustration. In the latter part of his life he moved to England in 1736 and became much sought after by premier botanists and collectors to record their rare plants. His work is now in many of the premier art collections - Natural History Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and the Lindley Library of the Royal Horti...

Botanical Art
The Marriage of Botany and Art
Botanical art is related to science, dissecting the parts of plants and accurately depicting them, but there are superb artists who have created more than merely an illustration of a plant or flower.... they have made pictures that we love to look at with beautiful colors and renderings that go far beyond the relay of mere information. Whether you wish to teach yourself to draw beautiful botanical art or collect some wall art, or maybe just while away some time gazing at the artistic artistr...