A Few Birds and Plants

on saturday I took the camera with me into the garden and set it up to take photo's every 10sec while I went about weeding, clearing. This photo is no the best from that bunch, but loved it for the

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Rei Hamon - Man of Nature. DVD Documentary 2009 KOG TV in association with Maori television &NZ On Air I had come across Rei Hamon’s art before briefly and already then thought it was amazing. What

Chapter review from Book on Mark Dion Dion M. Mark Dion (1997) London, Great Britain. Phaidon Press Ltd I had been confronted by Mark Dion’s work before and dismissed it as not having any relevance to

Book review of:  THE STORY OF ART. E.H. Gombrich. (1972) United States of America. Phaidon Press Limited This would be the best art related book I have read and would recommend it to all art

Work I brought along:fresh plant prints - small, square and larger onesagee jar screen printsleaves in jar images 1. Fresh plant prints: Judy felt that the smaller ones were more successful as they

For my latest studio work I did 3 trails:Fresh plant printsPreserving jarsFoliage in the largest jar1. Fresh plant prints screen images - To play further with the fresh plant imprints I scanned them

Nature’s ‘finger prints’: The bookthe Pressed Plant (DiNoto Andrea & David Winter. (1999)The Pressed Plant: The art of Botanical Specimens, Nature prints, and Sun Pictures. New York, America. Stewart,

I have done several photographic & print experiments with raw plant material to get an image on paper over time; such as Photograms, Cyanotype, Van Dijk, Gum Bichromate, Nature printing and

Who would have thought that in the 18th century, talking about and describing plant parts would be considered pornographic and so inappropriate to woman that books on this subject were ‘sanitized’ and

It was interesting reading this introduction forVitamin P2(2011) written by Barry Schwabsky that even he could not define art, never mind painting. This introduction piece raises several key points

meeting with Judy 14th Feb 2013 A need for me to have a chat with Judy arose form me feeling like I was in a washing machine of ideas and thoughts. Through researching the idea of ‘relationship

There are several important aspects central to this article:Anonymous has no consistent philosophy or political program - it’s commitment is to anonymity and also free flow of information. What

Since writing #2 blog I have been thinking about the word subconscious and it never seemed to fit in my head. Disassociated is a better word to describe the lack of a conscious link between people and

This thought resulted from starting to read the book Plants for people by Anna Lewington. This book made me realize that we have a conscious and a sub-conscious relationship with

The relationship between plants and people is forming the basis for my masters. As an avid gardener, keen organic home vegetable grower and a concern the way the world looks at the natural world, I am