Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...

Reproductions of botanical drawings made in the 1840s and 1850s, by several different Indian artists for the East India Company surgeon, and pioneering Forest Conservator, Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

African artists are making waves in the world of botanical art, adding their own unique touch to the centuries-old tradition ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Botanical artist Eileen Malone-Brown is seated, bent forward, intently concentrating on a painting she is working on of a green apple with leaves. She ...

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art Show in February. The artists — 10 ...

Barry Rosenthal’s series of jewel-toned garbage collections sheds new light on litter. Before photography and the Internet, developments in botany depended heavily on artists, rather than on foragers ...