Botanical Prints: With Excerpts from the Artist's Notebooks - Softcover

"A special feeling comes when an artist perceives his subject. Each artist relates to his subject matter differently," Henry Evans begins in Botanical Prints, a narrated collection that showcases his own very special artistry. Evans began making botanical prints in 1958, depicting some 1,400 subjects in 31 years. In that time, he was accorded more than 250 one-man shows in countries around the world and in almost every state in the union. Admired by art lovers and naturalists alike, Evans's work reveals a style intriguingly personal and botanically faithful, unerring in its feeling for rhythm and design.

Botanical Prints presents a vast array of Evans's stunning work---and goes one step further by providing excerpts from the artist's own notebook, which illuminate not only the physical processes he used but also the brilliant mind that created both the prints and the prose. Peter H. Raven

"[Henry Evans's] disciplined work conveys a sense of the plants that helps us understand them as they are, and reminds us of the beauty they have brought into the lives of all human beings since our ancestors first walked the earth." Peter H. Raven

"[Henry Evans] has produced portraits of flowers that can stand comparison with any that are being produced today in any medium whatever...He is a master craftsman." Wilfrid Blunt

Henry Evans was a prolific illustrator and printmaker, focusing solely on botany. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the California Academy of Sciences. His prints have been admired and collected by botanists, nature lovers, and designers for years.