Description: An astounding visual compendium of artworks that illuminates the deep connection between artistic expression and the natural world, leading to a heightened individual experience of both art and nature.
Brief description: Dr. Olivia Meehan is an art historian who makes connections between art, literature, nature, and gardens across continents and through centuries. Meehan's gallery and museum experience is wide-- ranging, from house museum collections to national and state collections, such as the Heide Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Archivio Luigi Nono, both in Venice. She regularly contributes to The World of Interiors. Meehan has lectured art history at the University of Cambridge, Australian National University, and University of Melbourne.
Review Quotes: This is a jewel of a book: an invitation for us to practice the essential art of looking, of slowing down. An animate celebration of nature and the myriad ways we have interpreted it across history.--Edmund de Waal