Fiurdelin Studio

Botanical illustration has been documenting the natural world for 300 years. It has never looked better on a living room wall.

I came to this work through admiration — for Ehret's precision, Redouté's feeling for light, Merian's insistence on showing the living insect alongside the living plant. I try to follow what they taught: observe first, understand the structure, then draw. The tradition is the method.

My studio is on Lake Como, Italy, where the botanical tradition runs deep — from the Roman-era lemon gardens of the lakeside villas to the mountain meadows above the lake where alpine plants and butterflies have been documented by naturalists for centuries. I work digitally, but the method is entirely traditional: I observe living specimens, study their structure before touching the drawing tools, and build each illustration from observation rather than photographic reference.

Behind every illustration is a body of research — all of it on my studio website, where I write extensively on botanical illustration history, plant symbolism, and the natural history of every species I draw.

These are digital illustrations, made by a human artist using digital tools, in the method and aesthetic of 18th-century observational natural h...

Biology and Chemistry

キノコの惑星 (Mushroom Planet)
Boji hair+gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan · 21–29 March 2026
Work shown: Amanita muscaria
BUG Exhibition
Boji hair+gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan · 21–29 March 2026
Work shown: Lucanus cervus