The two main ingredients in Camille Shu's paintings and illustrations are flowers and fruit. Mainly inspired by “plants and the things they do/make,” she admits to being in complete awe of the things that grow around us. “Fruit, flowers, trees, all of it," she elaborated. "Something simple like opening a blood orange from the store is a religious experience...
Judi Tavill’s ceramic art is directly inspired by nature in all its complexity. More than simple sculptures, her art replicates a living organism, or perhaps, a coral reef. “Sea creatures and weather formations, fabric folds and textile richness or historic ceramic techniques all come together to inspire the form and texture of the work,” writes Tavill on her website.
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There's something undeniably delicate about paper art, all the more when it's directly inspired by nature. Case in point: the paper art of Ann Wood. Inspired by historical botanical prints, Wood manipulates paper and wire to create intricate pieces that replicate plants and insects.
Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Wood was constantly surrounded by nature. Now based in...
You might think its already too late to find new and exciting places to explore on our planet, as humans managed to cover the entire Earth, but there are still some remote places left to explore. Amongst them are the deadly wet desert, and the deep, dark sea. Down there live creatures in complete darkness.
Munich design house Kurzgesagt created a lovely...
The plant trend has been on the rise for several years now. Young people all over the world are obsessed with decorating their apartments with unique plants. There are many reasons why this is happening: our hectic lifestyle makes plants easier to manage than pets, plants add a touch of nature to our otherwise nature less urban environment, it's...
Artists have been fascinated by the natural world since the dawn of time, and it's not hard to see why. Nature is the greatest artist of all, and everything we do is just an imitation of that original artwork that is the world, whether we accept it or not. This artist went beyond accepting it – he embraced it...
The world we live in suffers from different kinds of pollution and light pollution is just one of the problems our planet is facing that most of us aren’t even aware of.
Skyglow is a term referring to the brightness of the night sky in urban areas as a result of light pollution. Timelapse artists Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic have made a unique...
One man's trash is another man's treasure, or in this case, everybody's plastic waste becomes a city's next tourist spot in the form of a beautiful and awe-inspiring flower garden.
The city of Lamitan is located in the southern part of the Philippines, in Mindanao, the second-largest island of the archipelago. Mindanao, although known for many tourist spots and...
If you can take a few minutes out of your day to look up the statistics on how much plastic we dump into our oceans everyday, you probably wouldn't want to use one-time plastic ever again.
Some 8 million tons of plastic find their way into the oceans daily, and what constitutes a huge part of this waste are...
Sometimes, the best way to raise awareness and to protest something is to perform. That's basically the gist of what performance art is.
Daria Kurtumulus, the creator of ArtFashion paints on clothes. When she learned about the Amazon rainforest fires, she knew she couldn't just sit idly by as the world's most important forest gets ravaged by fires that...
