Going Native: Botanical Artworks of Canadian Native Plants at Sherway Gardens' Gallery in the Garden July 8, 2008

With gardens in full bloom, the current Sherway Gardens’ Gallery in the Garden Going Native: Botanical Artworks of Canadian Native Plants features unique artwork that showcases the beauty of native Canadian plants until August 16, 2008. For more information call 416-621-1070 or visit www.sherwaygardens.ca or http://www.botanicalartistsofcanada.org/.

Going Native: Botanical Artworks of Canadian Native Plants combines art and science as presented by local members of the Botanical Artists of Canada Barbara Baniuk, Raquel Baranyai, Lynda Bryden, Joan Burdett-Ness, Donna Greenstein, Celia Godkin, Irene Hunchak, Geraldine Jenkison, Luisa Klopchic, Esther Lovrics, Emily Luks, Pamela Meacher, Sophie Barbara Phillips, Nellie Sue Potter, Valerie Rabold and Tasira Strimban-Barishev.

Many floral paintings are impressionistic and show flowers and trees integrated into an equally varied and colourful background. In comparison, the paintings and drawings exhibited in Going Native: Botanical Artworks of Canadian Native Plants highlight the botanical material and meet the following criteria that set them apart:
· Botanical art includes documentation and accurate scientific illustration for plant identification.
· Botanical art can include zoological life that has a relevant relationship with the plant as long as they are scientifically accurate and remain secondary to the plant.
· Botanical art can include a background, as long as all it is part of the natural habitat of the plant and does not overshadow it.

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