Book ID: 107795
Li Zhang, Li Shihua and Xu Lili
The Magic and Enchantment of Bryophytes. 2017. Bilingual (Chinese / English).
In 2014, Li Zhang suggested to colleagues Ms Li Shihua and Ms Xu Lili, both artists in the Horticulture Department at Fairylake Botanic Garden, that they might illustrate some of the bryophytes he had previously photographed. Thus began a very successful collaboration between bryologists and artists leading to the publication last year of yet another beautiful book, 'The Magic and Enchantment of Bryophytes'! The artists used various media, including gouache, acrylic and water paints and also some computer-generated images. The paintings include 60 species from a wide range of habitats, from coniferous forests and grasslands of the north and south-west, to deserts of far western China, to rainforests of the south-east, and not forgetting those cosmopolitan species with which most of us are familiar!