Developing Beauty

Brandy Kraft’s interest in nature inspired her to create her own hybrid species of flowers

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Mankind is destroying the planet. This destruction has made me fascinated with preserving nature. I started with painting flowers—thousands of flowers in all states of life and decay. For years now, I have wanted to preserve their beauty and prevent their extinction.

Then suddenly in my dreams and in my subconscious I started having visions of new, non-existent flowers. I started painting these strange new hybrids and realized I was creating not only new species of flora but I was building a new world of my own. Flower by flower.

After a bit of persuasion, I convinced my husband to leave life in New York City to move back to Sweden so I could follow in the footsteps of famous Swedish botanist Carl von Linné. Each new hybrid flower species I create is now documented and cataloged in a scientific manner as I continually draw inspiration from the famous “father of taxonomy.”

I am building a new, magical hybrid world and this is just the beginning.