May 8, 2012
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The diversity of flower color has astonished artists, gardeners and scientists for centuries. Flowers generate color by reflecting only a subset of the wavelengths which make up white light, resulting in a colored appearance. This is achieved either through the … Continue reading
May 8, 2012
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Through the collaborations with botanical scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working with microscopic plant material as a source for this work, an increasing interest evolved to move the creative nature of using scientific technologies and the depiction of … Continue reading
May 8, 2012
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Musing over how a close-up view of a stained section showing the cellular patterns in a wood sample might resemble an abstract painting may appear akin to Hamlet ascribing animal characteristics to cloud shapes, a fallback upon our intuitive senses … Continue reading
April 29, 2012
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It is probably no coincidence that Abbott Thayer (1849–1921) and Hugh Cott (1900–1987), authors of the most influential early texts on the theory of camouflage, were both naturalists and accomplished artists. Long before computational neuroscience started to provide tight mechanistic … Continue reading
April 26, 2012
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Aesthetic expression, especially in modern art is about providing opportunities for artists as wide as possible to express the idea of painting with an infinite variety of ways. This is what really hit the art world today. Objects of vast … Continue reading