Since 1999, Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens has held an annual botanic art exhibition at the Sydney Gardens. For many of you it has become an annual pilgrimage to enjoy the works and ambience of the Gardens.
The exhibition, Botanica, showcases the truly exceptional and internationally recognised work of Australian botanical artists. At the same time we endeavour to introduce new and emerging artists.
Traditional botanic art is European, usually in watercolour and must be scientifically accurate. This year we are looking at Botanica de Materia Medica – plants that heal – and welcoming both traditional and wider artistic interpretations of this theme and in a broader range of mediums. We hope it will prove to be an interesting experience for you.
Exhibition 29th July – 13th August.
Botanica de Materia Medica.
Royal Botanical Gardens NSW.
I recently visited the @jurlique farm in the Adelaide Hills. Inspired by their seed to skin ethos and their care of the land in which they grow their plants, I decided to look deeper into the plants grown here. I quickly realised, not only are the plants amazing for your skin in the beauty area, they also had deeper medicinal values. Each plant illustrated has been used over many decades in Chinese, Native American Indian and Australian Indigenous medicine. The importance of plants as medicine is often overlooked but as people now search for a more natural approach to wellness plants are again being seen as an important consideration in our health.
