Denver Botanic Gardens’ award-winning botanic art program teaches students how to create illustrations of flowers, fungi and other plants that are both scientifically accurate and aesthetical… ...

It can show extra details of the fruit, for example, and what it looks like bisected,” Jess explains. And making botanical illustrations for a patron is alive and well, she points out.

"Botanical illustration can do something cameras cannot do. ... You need to see the roots, the blossom, the fruit," Fisher explains. "It's also done to show how beautiful the plant is.

Botanical art is having a moment, thanks to millennials and their fondness, not just to see, but to create illustrations of flowers, plants, fruits and even insects.

However, the artists exhibiting at The Art of Botanical Illustration Exhibition at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens celebrate and represent botanical accuracy, while simultaneously creating ...

But Rubin, a longtime member of Denver’s Spark co-op and a former botanical illustration instructor at the Denver Botanic Gardens, is also a student of the world, a traveler always looking ...

In June, the New Zealand artist was the recipient of the 2023 Jill Smythies Award for “outstanding diagnostic illustration in botanical art” by the Linnean Society of London, ...