Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Animals Nico Tracey's approach sits at

Nico Tracey's approach sits at the intersection of graphic design and painterly abstraction: shapes are clean-edged but feel organic

the layered foliage

and fierce expressions — all faithfully rendered on creatures a few centimetres tall

tightly cropped blossoms and looping outlines that turn a quiet botanical subject into a study of movement and light

Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Animals Nico Tracey's approach sits atCamellia japonica, with its precise, formal petals, was a favourite subject in both Japanese painting and early botanical photography and Kazumasa's striped variety is a particularly striking example. The flowers are caught in their prime: petals patterned in clean stripes of crimson and white, the geometry almost architectural in its regularity. His collotype process reproduces the pigmentation with a fidelity that no hand coloured engraving could