Capturing Nature’s Beauty to Inspire Conservation
One of the Grootbos Florilegium artists from Italy, Mauricio Michelozzi, is painting Disa hallackii, an endangered orchid species with an estimated 1'000 mature individuals remaining in the wild.
Botanical art is a beautiful way to immortalise a plant, but also a perfect way to capture the attention of ordinary people who respond to the visually stunning artwork and turn them into people who care about conservation. And that is the magic of the Grootbos Florilegium that uses art to remind us how unique and spectacular nature is; it is worth taking care of.
