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Baasa Gauteng

Address:

National Botanical Institute, 0001 Pretoria

Telephone:

011 2685313

Description

The Botanical Artists' Association of Southern Africa (BAASA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting public awareness of botanical art. BAASA is open to all botanical artists, whether scientific illustrators or realistic flower painters, as well as collectors and those interested in furthering the tradition of botanical art.

Keywords

Artists, Plant, Karoo, Flora, Of, Diversity, Collectors, Botanical Gardens, Botanical Art, Uniqueness, Leaves, Botanists, Plants Growing, Adenium Multiflorum, Disa Uniflora, Sand Veld Plants, North Eastern Lowveld, Brunsvigia Orientalis, Haemanthus Coccineus, Artistic Paintings, Botanical Artists, Botanical Material, Realistic Flower Painters, Public Galleries, Highveld Mountain Bushveld, Botanical Artists' Association Of Southern Africa, Scientific Illustrators, Non Profit Organisations

Company description

BAASA will promote public awareness of botanical art by organising exhibitions around the country, using a variety of institutions, including botanical gardens, private and public galleries etc.
BAASA will organise meetings on a regional basis - with smaller satellite groups - about four times a year. These meetings will be used to bring artists together, exchange ideas, disseminate information from other areas, give constructive feedback on work, plan exhibitions etc. Guest speakers will be invited to highlight topical subjects and visits to institutions in the immediate area will be arranged. Every few years a national conference will be convened.
Southern Africa is well known for its richness and diversity of flora, South Africa alone accounting for over 23000 species. For the last four hundred years this great wealth of botanical material has attracted botanists and artists to paint and record the characteristics, the beauty and strangeness of the plants growing in this area.
The great diversity and uniqueness of these plants offers endless opportunities for the botanical artist and this page, through photographic images and artistic paintings, will illustrate some of these possibilities.
The succulent karoo of Southern Africa boasts the richest succulent flora on earth with 69%of flora endemic to the area. It consists mainly of winter rainfall desert and is one of only two hotspots which is entirely arid. Dwarf shrubland dominated by leaf succulents is found throughout the succulent karoo. These drought-adaptable plants have thick, fleshy leaves or stems for water storage. There are approximately 1,700 species of leaf succulents and this dominance is unique among the world’s deserts.
Botanical artist Wilna Eloff- Laydon, gold medallist at Kirstenbosch Biennale 2008 illustrates four plants typical to the southern part of the succulent karoo: Aloe perfoliator, Haworthia reinwardtii, Aloe sp, Aloe melanacantha.

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