Chasing Plants
Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
Chris Thorogood, 2022
Science and art are both lenses through which I make sense of the natural world, even if they seem very different. I’m a botanist, first and foremost, and I’ve always been fascinated by how things work, as I mentioned above. But painting helps me make sense of a plant - to deconstruct something, to put it back together, to see it at the finest possible level of detail. To me, botany and art go hand in hand: art complements science. This book describes my forays into the plant world, and how I conjured them to life by brush.