Botanical Art Prints

How I paint plants and landscapes

The botanical paintings are slower than the animals. A protea has a strict geometry, and I draw it carefully before any colour goes down. The petals are then built in thin layers from light to dark. The landscapes are the opposite, done fast and wet, in one sitting. This is a small collection and I add to it rarely. The king protea is the national flower of South Africa and the waratah is the floral emblem of New South Wales, and both prints often travel back there.

Edition, paper and sizes

Every print in this collection is part of a numbered edition of 150, signed by hand. When an edition sells out it is not printed again. You choose between archival pigment inks on museum-quality cotton paper and a framed canvas in a black wooden frame, in 15 sizes from 20 × 26 cm to 100 × 140 cm. I print and check each one in my studio and ship it flat or in a hard tube. If you are new to editions, my guide to limited edition prints explains what the numbers mean.

The same paintings in other forms

Some of these works are still available as original watercolor paintings, one of a kind. The designs also exist as wearable art: botanical T-shirts, botanical mugs and botanical pillow covers.