Flowers and Gardens Illustrated

Flowers, plant life and gardens have influenced and interested generations of artists throughout history. This virtual exhibition includes works by selected gallery artists who have been inspired by flowers, gardens, green spaces, nature and the landscape around them to create their works, exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.

These paintings, drawings and prints depict the importance of flowers and nature for enjoyment, creativity and wellbeing. From floral studies and still lifes to outdoor scenes, these pieces show how gardens and flowers are able to reflect and draw on themes of identity, as well as encouraging us to think about the significance the natural world has, and how best to enjoy, cherish and protect it. Aside from studies of their inherent beauty and drama, flowers are also utilised as symbols, signifiers or metaphors for human emotions and impulses. Flora lies at the heart of myths and stories that inform our cultural outlook and language. Recognised as unparalleled objects of beauty in nature, artists continue to evoke the power and beauty of flora to convey a multitude of messages and meanings or as decorative additions to the artists’ subject matter and composition.

  • still life

    George Leslie Hunter

    Anemones in a Striped Vase with Apples in a Bowl

  • garden

    John Duncan Fergusson

    Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, c. 1899

  • flowers

    John Bellany CBE RA

    Vase of Flowers

  • flowers

    Annie French

    Flowers

  • flowers

    Alma Wolfson DA

    A Mixed Bunch

  • flowers

    Bet Low

    Vase of Flowers

  • figure

    William Crosbie

    Nude

  • flowers

    Jean Leslie

    Flowers

  • landscape

    Albert Andre

    La Ravin de la Fausse Monnaie

  • garden scene

    William Kennedy

    Un Esquisses du Printemp

  • flowers

    Breon O'Casey

    Flowers, 1970

  • flowers

    Kate Wylie

    Flower Study

  • bird in a tree

    Elyse Lord

    Bird in Magnolia

  • flowers

    Bob Batchelor

    Poppies ii

  • flowers

    Iona Roberts

    30th May, Lion's Tooth

  • garden scene

    Barbara Rae DBE RA RSA

    Night Flowers, 1975

  • flowers

    Elizabeth Shepherd

    Four Lilies

  • vase of flowers

    H. Lauder

    Vase of Flowers

  • still life

    Jack Knox RSA RSW RGI HFRIAS D.Litt

    Basket of Eels and Flowers

  • flowers

    Peter Ford

    Flowerpiece

  • still life

    Lys Hansen

    Still Life with Jug, Bottle and Flowers

  • plant

    Fiona Watson

    Purple Clover

  • still life

    Damian Henry

    Flower Composition

  • flowers

    Elizabeth Shepherd

    Snow Storm

  • flowers

    Iona Roberts

    December, Flower Study

  • figure

    Patrick Hayman

    Woman with Flowers (blue)

  • cactus

    Jack Knox RSA RSW RGI HFRIAS D.Litt

    Flowering Cactus

  • bottles

    Fiona Watson

    Six Green Bottles

  • flowers

    Iona Roberts

    December, Central Station Flowers

  • flowers

    Jane Fyfe

    Balcony Flowers

  • flowers

    Iona Roberts

    Spring Study

  • flowers

    George Todd

    Coloured Tulips, 1995

  • flowers

    Iona Roberts

    Spring Study iii

  • still life

    Lys Hansen

    Still Life with Pink Glass

  • flowers

    Jack Knox RSA RSW RGI HFRIAS D.Litt

    Cornish Window, 1974

  • flowers

    Mary Newbery Sturrock

    Early July

  • garden

    James Cowie RSA

    Garden Scene

  • flowers

    Patrick Caulfield CBE RA

    For John Constable, 1976

  • flowers

    Lily McDougall

    Summer Flowers

  • figure

    Patrick Hayman

    Woman with Flowers (green)

  • flowers

    Norman Ackroyd CBE RA

    Flower Piece, 1970

  • figure

    Isobel Muir

    Moonlit Reflection

  • park scene

    James Tweedie RGI

    The Trees

  • vase of flowers

    William Tillyer

    Vase of Flowers

  • leaves

    Nan Mulder

    Braken, Varens, Ferns

  • plant

    Robert Frame

    Pot Plant

  • plants

    Bob Batchelor

    Tropique

  • flowers

    Sylvia von Hartmann

    Time to Say Come Back

  • garden

    Henry Kondracki RSA

    Annie's Garden

  • garden

    Cecilia Murray

    Partridge in a Pear Tree

  • figure in a tree

    Anthony Fry

    Krishna in a tree

  • figures

    Jessie M. King

    The Coffer for Which Men would give their Sons

  • figure

    Annie French

    The Sweet Smell of Roses

  • scene of the town of Rothesay

    James Kay RSA RSW

    A View of Rothesay

  • vase of flowers

    Sir William MacTaggart

    Lilac Time

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