Botanical Beasties
About the work: These prints may appear to be animated and fanciful creatures, but they are all based on actual plants and organic matter. They might also be referred to as zoophytes. This series is called Botanical Beasties to describe the blending of two sources of inspiration: the traditional herbal and the bestiary. The Latin name for the actual plant is given first, followed by the alias of the “beastie”. The original series of drawings was executed in ink and gouache and can be viewed in the Drawings series: Probable Improbable.
Creation dates: 2009 – 2010.
Medium: Etching
Size: 4″ x 6″
Edition: Vertical prints are editions of 20; Horizontal prints are editions of 10.
Lemboglossum rossii, or
The Ascot Bibberbiddy
Cypripedium, or The Gypsy Bagalag
Oncidium, or The Bobbing Teddy Hounds
Pisum sativa, or The Dapper Glow Cloaker
Adientum pedantum, or The Nocturnal Lemasupial
Columna “Robin” or, The Plucky Pelted Poppets
Disa uniforma, or The Boggle-boff Ballyhoo
Calypso bulbosa, or The Tip Toe Fandangelo
Globba radicalis, or The Crooning Mongrelis
Phalaenopsis, or The Long-nosed Wingnut
Viburnum, or The Totem Wompons
Found stick or, The Shifty-eyed Twizzler
Asclepias syriaca, or The Fluffer Nutter
Psychopsis papilio, or The Falsetto Crown Mummer
Nepenthes ruffesiana, or The Tut Jugmuggle
Aerides odorata, or The Drowsy Tuffet Whumps
Paeonia, or The Fuddy Rumple Grimacer
Psychopsis papilio, or The Falsetto Crown Mummer
Acer campestre or, The Swooping Jibjabs
Angraecum eburneum, or The Tart-mouthed Grumpons
Phragmipedium sedenii, or The Royal Swaddled Flapdoodle
Aeschynanthus “Black Pagoda,” or The Chuckle Bass Flippant
Schlumbergera, or The Diving Swany Apso
Macropedia, or The Slack-jawed Polyglotinus
Pyrus, or The Periscopic Peckeroo