The effect was repeated in the studio, housing depictions of water lilies “at all hours of day: the pale lilac of early morning, the powdery bronze glow of midday, the violet shadows of twilight.” The ...

A groundbreaking environmental artist, she transformed water treatment plants and fetid ponds into enticing natural artworks.

Botanical artist Lucy Smith explains the process of drawing Victoria boliviana Horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, one of the world’s leading water lily experts, long suspected that the plant was ...