The Telegraph

Alastair Sooke

These flower paintings aren’t just beautiful – they’re astonishingly weird

"There’s much to savour in the Ashmolean Museum’s new exhibition about plants, which draws extensively upon Oxford University’s collections to avoid the “substantial environmental cost” of international loans, as director Xa Sturgis puts it. (I suppose a show with a botanical theme can be forgiven for flaunting its green credentials.) But, given the vagueness and breadth of the ostensible topic (“humanity’s relationship to nature”), I’d be hard-pressed to tell you what it’s really about."