Botanica Brasilis is the painting practice of Brazilian-born artist Cleidi Hearn, investigating cultivation through cultivated plants.

The practice returns repeatedly to cultivated species in long-term painting series. Its point of departure lies in the artist's early experience of cultivation in rural Brazil, where everyday life was closely organised around cultivated plants.

Painted on suspended flax linen through translucent layers, each scroll remains open, allowing the same cultivated species to be revisited instead of resolved.

Cultivation provides the conceptual framework of the practice. It organises the subject, the material and the making of each painting.