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Category Archives: Ecology
Eco Collographs: Shaking the Tree
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith The image above is another of my experiments with eco collographs on 300gsm watercolour paper. Look like … Continue reading
Oak Flowers on Silk – an Epitaph
There may not be another Spring in this park, so here is a bouquet in tribute, of flowers of oak, on silk. Continue reading
Hope: Satish Kumar Talking at 42 Acres, Shoreditch, London, April 2017
As promised in my blog Soil Soul Society, about the inaugural 42 Acres talk in their new London venue, here is the You Tube video made at the event, which I attended. I particularly liked Satish’s comments on Hope towards … Continue reading
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Soil Soul Society: Satish Kumar Talks at 42 Acres London
42 Acres describes itself as “… a retreat space nestled within a secluded Somerset valley.” And it has just established a beautiful centre in a deconsecrated church in the heart of Shoreditch, East London. The other night I attended the … Continue reading
Nature as Reliquary – or Cup Cake
Here are three recent eco prints on watercolour postcards, mounted on MDF board. Afterwards, I enhanced the prints with encaustic medium. Quite a process. I gathered the leaves to make the prints. I sandwiched the gathered leaves between the watercolour … Continue reading
Another from a recent eco print batch. The paper ground is one of the layers from the cardboard backing that fell away, after the boiling process, from my eco printing experiment using watercolour board. The wet cardboard fell apart into … Continue reading
Dramatic Narratives: More Eco Print Experiments
Nature in conversation. It is happening all around us. I think the pre-industrialised world could hear it. Indeed, we were part of Nature’s conversation. We knew it. Because we knew that we also were Nature. Then along came The Enlightenment … Continue reading
In Praise of Slow
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau Here’s another from my latest batch of eco prints on silk. I took the batch outside to photograph. I thought how well this print looked … Continue reading
