Walter Oltmann

Scatter, 2021

On his interest in flora and fauna the artist said: “Images of dissected flowers taken from botanical illustrations intrigue me and led to a series of flower sculptures and wall reliefs. I occasionally visited the specimen collections in the university Botany department, but most works were based on images from books. Studying plant images and preserved flora highlighted how plants have evolved in response to functional requirements. Some adapted with defensive appearance to preserve themselves and others using attractive colours or perfumes to attract their pollinators, in a complex web of interspecies signalling”.