Anatomy Wall Art Prints

Floral anatomy is the part of my work people either want immediately or not at all. Every print on this page draws a real anatomical structure — a heart, a brain, a pair of lungs, a rib cage, a full skeleton, a uterus, a breast, a baby in the womb with the placenta, a human eye, a molar with its roots — and then grows watercolour flowers through it in gold and soft colour. There is a large obstetrics group for midwives, doulas and OB-GYN practices; a dental group of teeth and hygienist tools; an ophthalmology print for an eye clinic; and a caduceus print that takes a doctor's name. Singles, pairs, sets of three and sets of four, printed to order on heavy matte paper, unframed, in seven sizes from 5x7 in (13x18 cm) to 16x20 in (41x51 cm).

Are these prints anatomically accurate?

The structure is drawn from anatomy and kept true — chambers, lobes, roots and vessels sit where they belong, which is why clinicians tend to be the people buying them. What they are not is teaching material: there are no labels, no arrows and no cross-section keys, and the flowers are a deliberate liberty. If you need a diagram for a lecture wall, this is the wrong page. If you want something a colleague recognises from across the room and then looks at twice, it is the right one.

What do you give someone who has just qualified?

Match the print to the discipline rather than to medicine in general — the tooth and tools prints for a dentistry graduate, the pregnancy and womb prints for a midwife or an OB-GYN, the eye for an optometrist, and heart, brain and lungs for everyone else. A set of three is the usual choice for a graduation, because it is enough to furnish the first consult room they are given rather than sitting alone on a shelf. The caduceus print is the one to choose when you want their name on it; order it once the qualification is confirmed, since the lettering is set into the painting before it is printed.

Does anatomy art work in a house rather than a clinic?

Better than most people expect. From a few paces away these read as botanical prints — the flowers are the first thing you see and the organ resolves afterwards — so they hang happily in a hallway, a study or above a desk. The one room I would think twice about is a dining room, where the subject is a little literal. Hanging one beside a plain botanical print is a good way to introduce it: the two share a palette, and the anatomy stops looking like a statement.

The teeth and dental tools have their own page at Dental Office Art Prints. For a whole practice, waiting room as well as consult room, see Office Wall Art, and the flowers themselves are in Floral Prints.