VISITORS to a North-East museum can explore the relationship between plants, people and art in an exhibition this summer.
Plantmania at Sunderland's Museum and Winter Gardens celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Horticultural Society and includes a fascinating and colourful selection of oil paintings, watercolours, prints, costume, ceramics, glass and contemporary craft.
The exhibition depicts numerous and varied interpretations of flowers and gardens, botanical illustrations and the symbolic use of plants as seen through the eyes of artists in the past 500 years.
Museum curator Juliet Horsley said: "The beauty of plants, flowers and gardens has inspired artists and designers for hundreds of years.
"This exhibition explores the relationship between people and plants from herbals printed in the 1500s to contemporary painting."
Plantmania Art and the World of Plants is on show until September 5.
Published: 27/05/2004
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