Botanical drawings (working title)
Sunday October 11th 2026 t/m Sunday April 4th 2027
During the age of exploration, botanical illustrators traveled on board ships to document unfamiliar plant species on the other side of the world. This was considered a scientific method of recording a species. Rather than depicting a single individual plant or flower, they would illustrate the “average” of a species to arrive at a representative form.
These drawings are beautiful and highly detailed, leaving no room for artistic freedom—the aim is to be as true to nature as possible. Despite the rise of photography, botanical illustration is still used in science today, and there are artists who have fully specialized in it.
