Wife NYC

Artists find so many unique ways of integrating plants into their work, whether that be through watercolor botanical illustrations or photographs of sweeping landscapes. 

Sophie Parker, artist and creative director of Wife NYC, a New York based botanical studio, loves any opportunity to stretch her creative muscles, especially when it comes to plants. 

“Letting creativity sort of guide a lot of play as a child then became an entire paradigm for how to exist as an adult.”

One of the reasons that Sophie loves to integrate plants into her work is that it helps deepen her connection with the natural world. 

“...it reminds me that I too am alive. Life becomes a lot more exciting when you start to integrate those things and start to see nature as deeply part of everything and everywhere that you exist.”

Sophie’s explorations of plants in her art started leaving the bounds of a canvas and transporting straight onto the foliage itself. She feels as though stepping over that boundary and making art directly with plants strengthens that connection with nature even more than before. 

“I think that that works really well because inherent in the very sort of like ethos of plants is that they are creative thinkers too. They will always find a way to grow or become or survive or reinvent themselves in some new context.”

A film by Ben Rountree.