The Flowering Amazon – Oppenheimer Kew Gardens Edition

Margaret Mee’s lavish paintings of orchids and bromeliads from the Amazonian forests represent more than the life and spirit of a talented artist drawn to adventure. Her eloquent and precisely painted visions of the vanishing rainforest lay vibrant testimony to the struggle between nature and commerce, thus working to preserve the wild habitats she painted and loved. She is a twentieth-century embodiment of the artist-explorer, with the added virtue of social consciousness. In this regard, her work lays claim to not only artistic merit and scientific accuracy, but stands as an historic witness to preserving a habitat rich in botanical diversity. The Flowering Amazon – Oppenheimer Kew Gardens Edition makes available a select number of Mee’s paintings from the botanical library collection at Kew as limited-edition fine art prints.