Botanical Art

• botanical art is important in the programme of of royal botanic gardens, kew
• long association with Curtis's Botanical MAgazine, the oldest conteinually pulbished journal of colour illustratios of plants
• 1988 - opening of kew gardens gallery to promot work of contemporary artsts
• botanical painting - a way of recording plants for scientific study and for identification
• the superiority of identification guides which use paintings over those illustrated with photographs is that an artist can specifically show all the significant fetaures whic haid accurate identification. new means of photography does not reduce the importance of the picture. scientific illustration, etc. - art in the service of science. NO! NOT JUST!