Plantworlds

About this book

When falls chill or winters storms keep you in plant yourself in front of the fireplace with this book of Andrea Joness botanical photographs and enjoy the eternal spring. In fact not even springs arrival will give you these views as you travel the globe with one of the worlds foremost photographers of plant life. In some photographs Jones close-ups of seeds flowers trees leaves grasses berries and stalks revel in intimate detail that seems too precise to be real. In others the living plants takes on abstract qualities via their sculptural variety and extraordinary systems and symmetry. Each chapter of Plantworlds is devoted to a particular continent and the plants native to that region. Influenced by artists such as Arthur Harry Church and Georgia OKeeffe Jones brings both a passion and an exacting eye to the natural world Jones has produced an oeuvre that will enlighten entertain and inform. A perfect gift for a gardener naturalist or any lover of photography.