Exhibition: Botanicals - Environmental Expressions in Art

19 October – 19 January 2014

Beverley Allen

Musa paradisiaca, Banana flower and fruit, 2002

Watercolour on paper

This exhibition represents one of the finest private collections of contemporary botanical art in North America. Previously exhibited in the US, these fifty-four artworks beautifully document both common and rare and endangered plants with scientific accuracy to highlight the importance of the planet’s biodiversity. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue includes artworks by forty contemporary artists from around the world.  

Regine Hagedorn

Rosa roxburghii 'Plena" (China), 2005, 

Watercolor on paper

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Damodar Lal Gurjar

Opium poppy bunch, 1997

Tempera on paper burnished by the artist