Dynamos: Mary Delany

Published: July 28, 2022, 9 a.m.

b'Mary Delany (1700-1788) was an English artist known for her groundbreaking \\u201cpaper-mosaicks\\u201d of botanical specimens. She took art imitating life to a whole new level by combining paint, paper, and sometimes pieces of real flowers to create extraordinarily accurate, realistic, and beautiful representations of flowers and plant life.'