Makingamark's Botanical Art Compendium

These sites are for botanical fine art enthusiasts, students of botanical art and/or art history, botanists or plant scientists, art historians, artists/botanical artists and art and plant lovers.

Botanical Art - shares information about botanical art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the development of botanical art. It also links to leading botanical artists in the past and present.

The Best Botanical Art Books - for people who want to learn more about botanical art. This site contains the best botanical art and botanical illustration books. Includes reviews of
* botanical art instruction books - for those wanting to develop their skills and
* books about famous botanical artists and painters of flowers in the past and present.

This site is for botanical art lovers. It focuses on the development of botanical art and botanical illustration. It also highlights:
* where you can see botanical art from the past in terms of online and permanent collections
* some of the more famous botanical artists - not all of which are listed below

The stories behind the botanical art of these three British Botanical Artists are absolutely fascinating
* Sydney Parkinson sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavour and was the first non-Aboriginal artist to set foot on Australian soil
* Elizabeth Blackwell created and published her Herbal to raise funds to save her husband from debtors' prison and beca,e the first woman to engrave as well as draw plants
*Margaret Mee who went to live in the Amazon so she could draw and paint the plants of the Amazon

The botanical artwork of royal flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté continues to be very popular to this day

The heritage associated with these artists is ground-breaking

* Maria Sybilla Merian's art created botanical / natural history paintings with an innovative compositional style and is very attractive to view. She displayed the life cycle of an insect against the background of its host plant.

* Basilius Besler is best known for compiling the book known as the Hortus Eystettensis which was a florilegium of all the plants grown in the garden of the prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.

* Franz Bauer become employed as "Botanick Painter to his Majesty" and drew all the new flowering plants at Kew.

* Ferdinand Bauer was the botanical artist on an expedition to explore and record the coastline of Australia.

* Georg Dionysius Ehret became one of the most influential botanical artists of all time through his development of the Linnaean style of botanical illustration.

Not all paintings of flowers, plants and gardens needs to be strictly botanical. The sites listed below list some of the best painters of flowers and gardens

A number of the botanical gardens are very much associated with the creation of botanical art - past and present
* The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew have played a very significant role in the development of botanical art. It also hosts the first museum of botanical art
* The Royal Horticultural Society - whose main garden is at Wisley - is responsible for awarding Gold Medals for botanical art
* The catalogue of the garden at Malmaison became famous as one of the most exquisite publications of botanical art in the world.