Botanical Sketches and Other Stories

“Every seed is a longing”    Khalil Gibran Hayani dates When excavating the Temple of Herod the Great in 1965, a dusty ...

To be a botanical artist, you need a certain amount of obsessiveness. Some botanical artists are obsessed with colour, making endless col...

“ Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop ”  Ovid After my flurry of painting last week, I needed to a few days to u...

   "Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food." Hippocrates Doum, Carob, Star Anise and Senna ...

Marianne North's Doum and Date palms on the Nile above Phillae I’m very excited about the  SBA’s exhibition , “ Medicinal and Po...