Linda Stillman : Botanicals

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I am interested in the passage of time in nature. I focus on how plants grow and die and how we try to preserve and remember their fleeting moments of beauty.

My work ranges across many media: painting, drawing, collage, photography and installation. I grow, collect and preserve flowers and leaves. I dry them for use in collages. And I make stains from flowers and leaves, rubbing them onto paper, creating traces of their ephemeral color. Many record what grows at my home in Hillsdale, NY or places I visit and become a kind of diary or scrapbook. My work documents a particular time and place while investigating the beauty of nature and its transformation into art.

Botanicals

Danse Macabre
2023
leaves, acrylic on paper
14 x 11 inches

Linda Stillman Botanicals ink, acrylic & leaves on paper

Leaves(s)
2023
ink, acrylic & leaves on paper
8 x 8 inches

fragments of leaves collaged on paper

Linda Stillman Botanicals Ink, leaves on paper

Burning Bush X
2023
Ink, leaves on paper
8 x 8 inches

The invasive Burning Bush is an invasive species and should be removed.
On exhibit in "Nature's Way" show at Odetta Digital/Shim Art Network on Artsy.

Linda Stillman Botanicals leaves, ink, acrylic on paper

Maples on the Move
2023
leaves, ink, acrylic on paper
8 x 8 inches

Sugar Maple trees are under threat from global warming and will have to move North to survive.
On exhibit in "Nature's Way" show at Odetta Digital/Shim Art Network on Artsy.

Linda Stillman Botanicals leaf, ink, acrylic on paper

Black Square: Scream
2023
leaf, ink, acrylic on paper
8 x8 inches

Another in the series of collages with black squares commenting on the environmental crisis.

In exhibition: “Plant Matter,” curated by Ursula Hudak; Roxbury Arts Group; Roxbury, NY; August 2024

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, pencil, fern, varnish on paper

Bash Bish Falls
2022
acrylic, pencil, fern, varnish on paper
16 x 11.5 inches

My interpretation of Bash Bish Falls, inspired by the painting by Asher B. Durand and a recent visit to the falls.

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, leaf fragments on paper

Black Square: Touch
2022
acrylic, leaf fragments on paper
8 x 8 inches

On exhibit at the Century Association in NYC June-Sept. 2024

Black Square: Oaks
2022
acrylic, leaf fragments on paper
14 x 11 inches

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, leaves on museum board

Black Square: Arc 1
2022
acrylic, leaves on museum board
12 x 9 inches

Leaves and black square.
In exhibition, “ Small Works: Plant Based,”Woodstock Art Association & Museum:
curated by Tracey Cockrell; Woodstock, NY; August 2024

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, leaves on paper

Black Square: Time out
2022
acrylic, leaves on paper
14 x 11 inches

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, Sweet gum leaves, pencil on museum board

Black square: face it
2021
acrylic, Sweet gum leaves, pencil on museum board
12 x 9.5 inches

Black square and Sweet gum leaves.

Not for sale.

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, Japanese Maple leaves, pencil on museum board

Black Square: guards
2021
acrylic, Japanese Maple leaves, pencil on museum board
12 x 10 inches

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic, Japanese Maple leaf fragments, pencil on museum board

Black Square: Flight
2021
acrylic, Japanese Maple leaf fragments, pencil on museum board
9.25 x 9 inches on 12 x 10 inch board

The first piece in my series of Black Square collages.
In exhibition: “Plant Matter,” curated by Ursula Hudak; Roxbury Arts Group; Roxbury, NY; August 2024
SOLD

Linda Stillman Botanicals archival ink jet print

Tree Tree Tree
2024
archival ink jet print
multiple sizes available: 30 x 22 inches

This collage was made from dried Japanese Maple leaves cut and arranged in a grid going from green to brown. It was scanned and made into a fine art archival ink jet print. Available in full-size edition. And 16 x 12 edition.
The original is in the collection of the Cary Institute.

Black squares: multi
2021
acrylic, leaves on paper
30 x 22.25 inches

A collage of dried leaves.

Linda Stillman Botanicals leaves on paper

Circle Out
2020
leaves on paper
14 x 11 inches

collage of Japanese Maple leaves

Circle In
2020
leaves on paper
14 x 11 inches

dried Japanese Maple leaves collaged on paper

Linda Stillman Botanicals Japanese Maple leaf fragments, pencil on museum board

Black Square 1
2021
Japanese Maple leaf fragments, pencil on museum board
9.25 x 9 inches on 12 x 10 inch board

Linda Stillman Botanicals vines, acrylic paint, metal buttons

Bitter/Sweet wreath
2021
vines, acrylic paint, metal buttons
approximately 6 feet round x 8 inches

Invasive Bittersweet vines wound into a wreath with spokes to invoke the model of the Coronavirus. A site specific installation made for the ICEHOUSE Project Space in Sharon, CT.

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic & ink on canvas with painted vines

12 Invasives
2021
acrylic & ink on canvas with painted vines
approximately 6 x 6 feet x 2 inches deep

Paintings of some of the invasive plants in my yard. An installation made for the ICEHOUSE Project Space in Sharon, CT.

Linda Stillman Botanicals acrylic on wood

No Norways 2
2021/2022
acrylic on wood
14 x 14 x 1.5 inches

A slice of a Norway Maple tree, an invasive in my area painted with a warning slogan. The wood has cracked over time, my collaboration with time and Mother Nature.