As wildflowers dot the Morongo Basin, the Hi-Desert Nature Museum is bringing the blooms indoors with their current exhibit.
Henry Mockel was one of the nation’s most widely-known and beloved illustrators of desert plants and flowers. A Twentynine Palms resident until his death in 1981, Mockel and his wife ran the Pioneertown Art Gallery, and his self-published book The Desert Wildflower Notebook is a cherished compendium of descriptions and illustrations of our local flora.
The Hi-Desert Nature Museum is displaying 25 original full color serigarphs made by Mockel. Serigraphs are the result of a fine arts process where ink is forced through a series of fine mesh silk screens. Some of Mockel’s serigraphs required forty-five separate layers.
The High Desert Nature Museum is open Wednesdays through Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is located 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway in Yucca Valley.
Link: Hi-Desert Nature Museum
