Story of Flowers
Katie Scott is a London-based illustrator and artist whose work combines scientific observation with fantastical imagination, rooted in a deep curiosity about the natural world. Scott examines real entities to depict nature with illustrative precision, evolving scientific observation into something more fantastical and poetic. Her book Animalium received the Children's Book of the Year from The Sunday Times in 2014, and Botanicum followed in 2016 after two years of research at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. Her illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, and the Norwegian Medical Journal, and she has worked with Hermès, Gentle Monster, Nike, Penguin, Phaidon, and BBC, among others.
Animated short film(with Azuma Makoto), 3 min 28 sec 2017
In 2017, Katie Scott and James Paulley collaborated with Japanese flower artist Azuma Makoto on Story of Flowers, their first animated short film. The work follows the lifecycle of flowers in rich, luminous detail, from budding growth to full bloom, weaving together Scott's intricate illustrative style with Paulley's fluid motion and Makoto's poetic understanding of floral form. The result is a tender and visually immersive meditation on nature's cycles, capturing the fleeting beauty and quiet wonder of the natural world. Since then, the trio have created two further films together and are currently developing a fourth, continuing their shared interest in the intersection of nature, art, and animation.
Sound: Tom Joyce by Sound Canvas
Animation, 2020,10 min
Eden is a seamlessly evolving landscape that blooms and transforms over a ten-minute loop, reflecting Scott and Paulley's fascination with organic growth and the rhythms of the natural world.
