By SHEILA MANSON
YOU like flowers; you may even love flowers – their colour, their perfume, and their beauty. But have you ever looked really closely at them? Botanical artists do. They pick out every tiny detail from the petal down to the stem.
They even dissect seed pods and examine roots and leaves of plants, and if you ever wondered how all the flora in the world was discovered and named, it was from drawings produced by botanical artists and scientists in the golden years of the art, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Yet, this ancient art form of drawing the ephemeral allure of flowers and vegetables has not withered and died, but is alive and blooming in Noosa.
Anyone who is interested can see this extraordinary work that is part of a joint exhibition including such crafts as scrapbooking, crochet, quilting and creative works of art daily at Wallace House, 1 Wallace Drive, Noosaville.
The official opening of the exhibition will be held on Saturday 16 July at 10am, with the exhibition to run until Saturday 23 July.
As a special treat, art lovers will also be able to partake in a wonderful homemade Devonshire cream tea on the sunny verandah, provided by Judy Chipperfield, latterly of the Two Old Ladies Teashop, Pomona. So do come along and indulge your senses.
