She doesn’t spend much time with this vista; as the Smithsonian’s botanical illustrator ... The ink-on-paper drawings tend to be in black and white. For color work, she draws on the computer.

But most captivating is the array of vibrant botanical illustrations that cover the walls and seem to spring to life from their frames, highlighting an important intersection between art and science.

Before there was photography, botanists—or anyone wishing to document flora—created detailed illustrations, known as botanical studies ... rendered against a white backdrop with other relevant ...