The Interior World of Flowers. Seeing the Normally Unseen. Botanical Illustrations.

pp.86 plus 42 colour giclee prints. 4to. Hardback. Hand-made book, printed and bound by Jane Anashka. Fine condition. Copy No. 2 from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed by Jane Anashka and dated August 2020. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist, with dedication from Jane Anashka reading ‘for Gren, With thanks for all your help and encouragement’. Gren wrote the foreward to ‘The Interior World of Flowers’. Housed in blue cardboard outer. Each copy of this book is made to order and are priced at £800.00 new. A wonderful work. Jane and her working partner John (Jay) Cowie ‘look for designs within the translucent skeletal strucure of wild plants’. In doing so, they capture ‘moments of growth and decay - so the art is truly of the plants themselves. In April 2016 ‘House and Garden’ Editor, Clare Foster wrote ‘Jane Anashka and John Cowie make images of flowers like no others. Working mainly with wildflowers, they carefully press the blooms before photographing them, capturing the intricacies after pressing has made them translucent.’.…