Born and inspired by a group of images and pictures archived over time, the painting is a personal translation of... Read More
Born and inspired by a group of images and pictures archived over time, the painting is a personal translation of a path around the role of women in the fields of botany and gardening.
The research behind this work took shape, remaining visually and pictorially influenced, by the observation of the satirical illustration "Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society" by artist Geroge Cruikshank. The re-emergence of Lady Anne Monson, a silent and solitary connoisseur of plants in the bottom of the image of the english artist, becomes the principle to analyze and re-propose a personal story of the female figure in the garden and in gardening. Here are the Kewties (as the female gardeners of Kew Gardens near London were called), the symbols for the new gardening.
