Listen "Margaret Best, Seeing Plants Through Botanical Art"
Episode Synopsis
Margaret Best is an award-winning contemporary botanical artist and a respected teacher. Her work can be viewed in books, catalogs, magazines, public and private collections, and on coins distributed by the Royal Canadian Mint.How did Margaret stumble into this genre?What life experience prepared Margaret for the specialty she’s become known for?How does botanical art differ from flower painting?Let’s find out. LINKSMargaret Best’s websiteMargaret on Instagram (@margaretbest8904)Margaret on FacebookAnn SwanPandora SellarsCoral GuestAmerican Society of Botanical ArtistsOut of the Woods ExhibitionBotanical Art and ArtistsPlant BlindnessMargaret Best Designs Wild Rose for Royal Canadian MintMargaret Best Discusses Color in Botanical Art, Provides Tips for Informal Science EducatorsThe Blue of the Artist’s Ocean, an article for Environmental Education Week by Margaret Best
_______________CREDITS:Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.Subscribe to Transferable Solutions, a newsletter about reimagining environmental skillsContact Us© 2019 - 2026 Talaterra Inc ABOUT:TALATERRA combines "tala" (Icelandic for "to speak" and "to talk") with "terra" (Earth)—because speaking for our planet and telling its stories is what environmental educators do.TALATERRA: to speak Earth. * TALATERRA is an affiliate of Bookshop.org.
_______________CREDITS:Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.Subscribe to Transferable Solutions, a newsletter about reimagining environmental skillsContact Us© 2019 - 2026 Talaterra Inc ABOUT:TALATERRA combines "tala" (Icelandic for "to speak" and "to talk") with "terra" (Earth)—because speaking for our planet and telling its stories is what environmental educators do.TALATERRA: to speak Earth. * TALATERRA is an affiliate of Bookshop.org.
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