什么是植物艺术？（一）

What is botanical art? （1）

Worldwide Day of Botanical Art celebrates botanical art from 25 countries around the world. At the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, artists will give talks and demonstrations. 

These range from Lucy Smith’s talk on the challenges of illustrating Kew’s rarest plants like Encephalartos woodii, to a discussion by Georita Harriot on her colour-mixing research exploring how to make a staggering 1,000 shades of green.

Botanical art captures the beauty of the natural world in all its intricate detail. It also has an important scientific function; producing images used by botanists to identify plants.

Even more than this, it is crucial in the documentation and conservation of species.

Many of the species that Lucy Smith has drawn are new to science, and her role in illustrating them is ‘so that they can be described to science’ and protected.

Botanical art is an umbrella term used to describe both scientific illustrations and botanical art, which can be defined slightly differently.

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