Margaret Mee

It is with great pleasure that we offer this selection of prints from Margaret Mee's extraordinary work, Brazilian Bromeliads. These stunning limited edition prints are from 1 of only 500 portfolios produced.

Margaret Ursula Mee (1909-1988) was an intrepid explorer and dedicated conservationist, as well as one of the finest botanical artists of the past 100 years. She moved from her native England to Brazil in 1952 along with her husband, and began teaching art in São Paulo. Her first paintings of Brazil's exotic flora were bromeliads from the Serra do Mar region along the Atlantic coast.

Shortly thereafter, Mee began the first of over 15 expeditions through the Amazon river area — journeys which would end up spanning more than three decades of her career. Mee often traveled great distances through dangerous and uncharted regions in a small canoe, with a lone Tucano Indian as her guide. She overcame many hardships — including life-threatening bouts with malaria and tropical fevers, as well as nearly drowning on several occasions — to document the plants and animals deep within the Amazon.