The Plantasia Collection is an ongoing project that highlights botanical art, and showcases it in a series of watercolour paintings by Calgary artist L.C. Cariou.

Kew’s Princess of Wales Conservatory (2019) was one where my ambition clearly got away from me. I was enchanted with this temperate house at Kew Garden’s, brimming with a variety plants, home to plants from 10 different climate zones! This painting centres on the wet tropical zone of the conservatory, home of the iconic Victoria amazonica waterlily’s, I believe my ambition grew to match the 2.8 meters of them. Nevertheless I made my way slowly and surely through the painting and after many painstaking hours I finally finished it. After-which I boasted for months that it was my masterpiece. 

At the beginning of the month I finished my series of British Horticulture paintings! For now! There will probably be a part 2 someday, but for now I am moving onto another topic! But I wanted to do a bit of a recap of the whole series as a wrap up, and go into some of the details about the paintings individually and what it was like painting them.