Native Plant Art
We are thrilled to have a number of talented artists within the Cuplet Fern community whose work features native plants and serves to raise awareness and enthusiasm for our Florida environments and wildlife. You can find even more native plant art and share your own work in our Florida Native Plants Art Facebook group!
If you are are a local artist who would like to be featured here, please submit your work for consideration.
Kim Heise Art
Kim Heise Art
Kim Heise: I grew up in Broward County enjoying the pine flatwoods habitat around me and developed a love for natural areas. I have a BFA in Painting from FAU and started painting realistic Florida native plants and animals in watercolor about 8 years ago! My first encounter with art and conservation was the Rally for the Rocklands in 2016 hosted by the South Florida Wildlands Association. I interned with them on and off for a couple years and learned a lot about the state of conservation in Florida. In support of and in collaboration with conservation groups, I made zines, interactive installations, coloring books, trail signs, maps, logos, trail guides and other resources with my art. I love the educational component of what I do and am looking forward to continuing to draw attention to and appreciation of our local species!
See more at Kim Heise’s site
Natalie Swanson
Natalie Swanson
Natalie Swanson grew up on the Gulf coast of Florida where she first developed her fascination with the natural world and art. She spent her youth catching lizards, following railroad vine trails and watching gopher tortoises dig burrows in the sand dunes. After graduating with degrees in Environmental Studies and Biology Education, her career has centered around building appreciation and action for environmental sciences and education. She now resides in Oviedo FL where she coordinates and presents environmental education programs for Seminole County Natural Lands. As a member of the Cuplet Fern chapter of the Native Plant Society, she enjoys the camaraderie and inspiration she draws from working towards the mission of preservation, conservation, and restoration of our beautiful and diverse ecosystems. Natalie’s art focuses mainly on Florida native species, their role in the habitats they live in and the ecological perils they sometimes face. Using predominantly watercolor, her art is meticulously rendered which brings her subjects and their stories to life.
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Polly Perkins
Polly Perkins
Polly Perkins: I'm a printmaker with a focus on woodblock prints. I am fascinated by the layering of form, color and texture possible with this medium. The carving, inking and printing are both procedural and painterly. Most of my woodblocks are printed by hand, without a press. I also work in collage, using my own prints and painted papers to create new imagery and artist books. Gardening with natives has been an important inspiration for me, I work from plants in my garden or encountered in the wild. The small patch of habitat that surrounds my home is an oasis for countless creatures, and this view feeds all my studio work too. My artmaking experience includes oil painting, lithography, silkscreen, murals, dioramas, life drawing, animated film, Illustrator / Photoshop graphics, photography and museum exhibit design.
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Linda Wilinski
Linda Wilinski
Linda Wilinski is a conservation photographer with focus on Florida's freshwater springs and its wildlife.
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Kate Dolamore
Kate Dolamore
I’m a self taught artist who grew up in the woods of Seminole County. I was homeschooled, an education which nurtured my drive to create art and explore outside. In 2008 I started painting the birds of Merritt Island NWR in a field guide style in order to become better at identifying them, and it turned out that others were interested in using my paintings to learn from as well. I never looked back, and I’m still making field guide style paintings and continuing to learn more about nature! My preferred medium is watercolor, applied with tiny paintbrushes. I'm sometimes known as my Instagram handle @thelittlenuthatch
See more at Kate Dolamore’s site
Kevin Songer Nature Art & Nature Radio
Kevin Songer Nature Art & Nature Radio
Aortic dissection survivor living life fully through Nature's healing power. Audiophile, Farmer, Lawyer, Biologist, & Native Plant Artist. I want to share healing I've found through my immersion in native plants & wildlife exploration. My art is available in prints, original works and field recorded wildlife audio.
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Jenny Bleackley
Jenny Bleackley
Jenny’s series of panels started during lockdown, inspired by the wildflowers she discovered on walks around the state parks of Pinellas County. She is a self-taught, award winning, impressionistic watercolor artist who has mastered the art of using her medium on canvas, reimagining its traditional form with techniques that make it move in delightful and subversive ways. Taking over two years to complete, the panels became an urgent incarnation of what is real, natural and beautiful: a turning away from a political landscape ruptured by Covid and obfuscation of the truth; a turning towards the native beauty threatened by an undeniable climate crisis.
Jenny says of the panels: “It was a need to show there is something else going on in this world that can give us hope – the wildflowers that struggle to survive through the waves of extraordinary extremes of weather, from blazing heat to flooding. But also, to understand these are real problems – unlike the fabrications of political players with their own agendas.” She adds, “I'm enchanted by the wildflowers’ beauty and determination to thrive. Their chaos, competing for the best light, provides a free style for me to paint.”
The series embodies an acute appreciation of natural beauty suspended in time as the pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. The wildflowers are depicted in a representational yet unseasonal composition, climbing joyously up demandingly tall, oblong canvases. The first six panels show the wildflowers painted out of their natural habitat; the final six move them back to their landscape roots as daily life opens back up and the artist’s need for control dissipates. Jenny was born in the States and emigrated to the U.K. as a child. She returned in 2011, drawn to St. Petersburg’s burgeoning arts scene and weather and now has a studio in the ArtsXchange, St Petersburg. Her first solo show was in March and April 2019 at the Mirella Cimato Gallery, St. Petersburg, and she continues to sell internationally through her website, www.jennybleackley.com, and regularly exhibits in the U.S. and the U.K.!
See more at Jenny Bleackley’s site
Wiregrass Everlasting
Wiregrass Everlasting
Floral relief art celebrating the botanical heritage of Florida.
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Lifelines, Connecting Nature's Habitat
Lifelines, Connecting Nature's Habitat
Landscape design is the oldest form of Eco Art. Gardening is site specific and follows the same elements of art making. My medium is native plants and I look to recreate wildlife habitat while giving human nature a different perspective on the purpose of plants. I now design Living Walls, Microforests and home landscapes. My art degrees led me to this practice and I find it most rewarding.
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