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 ...

Art imitates nature and vice versa at the Tropical Conservatory Gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens. Nothing appears as it should in “The Nature of Things” exhibit, where a bouquet of flowers is ...

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

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which describes itself as “the world’s leading gardening charity”, has always combined an interest in gardens with a keen eye for botanical art. Dating back to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asking Dame Shirley Sherwood how best to use botanical art as decor is roughly equivalent to asking Crystal ...

In the last edition of Marg magazine, art historian Sita Reddy challenges the perception that vegetation and rootedness are inextricably linked. Plants are the world’s “first globalisers”, she writes ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As gardens go to sleep in the week before Christmas, I find sustenance in the current flowering of botanical ...

It's Archibald time; the annual portrait prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales when visitors traverse the Sydney Domain to see paintings of well known, and sometimes not so well known, ...

SINGAPORE – When it is seen through the eyes of botanical artists, the combination of art and science can be beauteous. Examples of this art form are now on show at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, ...