Botanical.art Stories

This botanical art blog started as a place to put down what I notice while drawing — the history behind a plant, the illustrator who first documented it, the symbolism that accumulated over centuries. It has since grown to cover where the drawings end up: on a wall at home, in a restaurant, along a hotel corridor. Each article connects to direct observation: a specimen studied closely, a technique tested at the desk, a flower whose meaning turns out to be stranger and older than anyone expects.