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Buy/gift a digital subscription Login to the Digital EditionA new wave of botanical illustrators is transforming a nation’s appreciation of nature
Botanical illustration is an expanding art form in Turkey. In May 2025 an excited throng gathered at the SALT Beyoğlu gallery on Istanbul’s İstiklâl Caddesi to enjoy an exhibition of contemporary botanical paintings, planned to coincide with the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, which encouraged similar events in 30 countries from the USA and Chile to South Korea, New Zealand and Scotland. The subjects chosen for 2025 are useful native plants, and the Turkish theme was the legacy of Anatolia as a source of medicinal and cultivated plants, highlighting ancient crop diversity. Many artists sent in their paintings to be judged by the Botanical Artists’ Committee (BİRET), which chose the 80 to be shown.
USEFUL LINKS
Flora Research Association (Flora Araştırmaları Derneği) (Turkish only) flora.org.tr
Anatolian Plant Legacy biret.org
SALT Beyoğlu saltonline.org/en
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