Episode 46: Sabine Purkhauser – Houseplant Sketchbook

Sabine comes from an artistic family and has many different creative interests, including sewing, embroidery, vintage fashion and especially, growing and painting houseplants. Sabine shares the story of how she began growing houseplants and capturing them in a nature journal.

Listen to hear more about:

• How Sabine started collecting houseplants.

• The darker side of the houseplant industry.

• Sabine’s favourite media for capturing houseplants in her sketchbook.

• Thoughts on painting living, growing, moving subjects.

• What nature looks like where Sabine lives, in Switzerland.

• The times when you might need glittery paint as a houseplant artist!

• Making online connections through plants and art.

• Livestreaming on the platform Twitch.

Find Sabine on Instagram using this link - https://www.instagram.com/houseplant.sketchbook

Sabine’s sewing blog can be found here - https://petersilieundco.com/

Watch Sabine painting on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/sabineplantqueen.

Here are two books recommended by Sabine, for those interested in plants:

• Kew Gardens Rare Plants: The Story of 40 of the World's Most Unusual and Endangered Plants

• The Plants Messiahs - Carlos Magdalena

Some interesting articles recommended by Sabine:

• Ten ways to make your houseplant addiction more sustainable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2021/5/5/ten-ways-to-make-your-houseplant-addiction-more-sustainable

• Money grows on trees: Into the world of super rare houseplants: https://thelatch.com.au/money-grows-on-trees-into-the-world-of-super-rare-houseplants/

• Who’s paying $5,000 for one houseplant? More people than you’d think: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyw5v/most-rare-and-expensive-houseplants-variegated

• The dark side of the houseplant boom: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/dark-side-houseplant-boom-nature-empathy/618638/

• Rare plants: The impact of seeking the desirable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2020/4/28/6amavoaxaon1paxmiczutsh6haqaco

• The case of the purloined orchid: https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2005/03/the-case-of-the-purloined-orchid

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