Botanical art: 5 artists to follow on Instagram To discover real works of art made with flowers and plants

The fleeting beauty of flowers makes them special natural elements. Working hard to find harmony in textures, colors and sometimes smells, is the hard but rewarding task of botanical artists. Instagram is full of very interesting proposals on floral arrangements, from the most traditional ones like paper flowers to the most innovative ones that see flowers in space, frozen and hand painted. Here are our favorites to follow right away on Instagram.

 

Sophie Parker

If you are lucky enough to end up on Sophie Parker's Instagram account, aka @wifenyc, you will find beautiful images in which plants are the protagonists creating unique sculptures, each different from each other, with original colors, shapes and patterns that translate in unpublished picturesque figures.

Some argue that he is the Ferran Adrià of floral art and that his studio - perhaps better defined as a laboratory - is where he cultivates the ideas and experiments that have given rise to projects like his In Flowering series, an experimental work that seeks to give new meaning to botany, and to floral compositions in spaces where, a priori, nature cannot live or develop.