Jane Gregory
A catalogue of fictional flora being
assembled without regard for botanical science.
assembled without regard for botanical science.
Jane Gegory collects and records botanical specimens using a flatbed scanner and Photoshop.
In a hi-tech process that echoes Victorian activities such as flower pressing and botanical illustration she creates images of flowers, buds, whole plants and - in this case - whole bonsai trees that are apparently precise trompe l'oeil renderings of nature.
The resultant inkjet prints give off an uncanny glow and the viewer is uncertain of their truthfulness. The specimens, suspended in blackness possess unfamiliar colours and a strange constructed air that hints at a catalogue of fictional flora being assembled without regard for botanical science.
Pictured above: Yellow Ash (detail) © Jane Gregory