Photography allows us to make fabulous connections with nature, whether by portraying very small things or capturing funny, unrepeatable moments. But there are people out there who prefer to record their encounters and discoveries in a more traditional way, that is, by hand and with great skill. One of them is the biologist and illustrator Jo Brown. Her journal full of drawings exploded across the web, will soon become a book, and we can also enjoy her other works, published on Instagram and under events like the Inktober.
Not having fundamental resources like photography and video in those days, the old masters of different branches had no choice but to draw... and be very good at it. I still remember the case of Abraham Ortelius, the father of the Atlas, who found a great balance between science and fantasy, but what brings us together here today is not detailed maps, but nature. Insects, fungi, birds, carnivorous plants, slugs.
https://twitter.com/bernoid/status/1121778177771220997All that and much more comes to life thanks to the pencils, ink, and skill of the biologist and illustrator Jo Brown. In April 2019 she had almost ten thousand followers on Twitter, but she had the foresight to publish a small sample of her journal, and from that moment, the public started asking for more. The complete edition of her journal will be published by the British publisher Short Books in October of this year; however, a good part of her material is already online, both on the official page and on her Instagram profile, where you can also enjoy her participation in the Inktober, and her fascination with fungi.
Gallery: Jo Brown's Nature Illustrations
