The second of the the two hand crafted volumes of Transylvania Florilegium is on display at the National Museum of Arts in Bucharest between April 16 and May 5, 2019. “Each set is hand-bound in leather and marbled paper, and finished with gold leaf. The Transylvania Florilegium is a sumptuous collection of stunning botanical art created by artists, craftsmen and women, botanists and scholars, and with a Preface written by HRH The Prince of Wales,” according to Addison Publications.
The Transylvania Florilegium has been organises under the supervision of The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, in conjunction with Addison Publications and a succession of teams of botanical artists, curators and people involved in craft book production. For more than six years, carefully selected internationally renowned artists have been creating over 124 watercolour illustrations of indigenous species in Transylvania. Each artist painted up to six plants and offered them for selection as part of the final work. In the florilegium, information regarding each plant accompanies every painting.
HRH The Prince Charles of Wales is a passionate supporter of the conservation of this precious environment, and the paintings of the florilegium were created by artists studying the flora at his properties at Viscri and Zalanpatak, in Transylvania.
The leading botanical artists chosen for the project were from America, Australia, England, France, Holland, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. They were: Beverly ALLEN, Helen ALLEN, Martin ALLEN, Fay BALLARD, Gillian BARLOW, Christine BATTLE, Marie-Christine BOUVIER, Andrew BROWN, Celia CRAMPTON, Angélique DE FOLIN, Gillian FOSTER, Sarah GOULD, Lucinda GRANT, Isık GÜNER, Noriko HASEGAWA, Mayumi HASHI, Junko IWATA, Heeyoung KIM, Flappy LANE FOX, Chrissie LIGHTFOOT, Jill MAYHEW, Kate NESSLER, Susan OGILVY, John PASTORIZA PIÑOL, Jenny PHILLIPS, Elaine SEARLE, Laura SILBURN, Lucy SMITH, Sally STRAWSON, Mary Ellen TAYLOR, Vicki THOMAS, Julia TRICKEY, Anita WALSMIT SACHS-JANSEN, Amanda WARD, Susan WORTHINGTON.
Pictures from Addison Publications Ltd, The Guardian, and Business Review magazine.