For the past couple of months I have been painting specimens from the Eucalyptus Infera. Jason Halford from the seed bank (which is situated in the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden ) has been supplying me with specimens. We are hoping to make a trip next week to see the trees growing in their natural habitat. I am looking forward to meeting the trees I have been painting.
The Eucalyptus infera is listed as a vulnerable plant species.
Photos of students wonderful work from the Ink workshop in the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Garden last weekend. They created wonderful inky images from botanical specimens.
I will be doing another ink workshop on the 6th September ( see 'workshop' page of the website)
tenative start......
a slow walk in the garden reveals hidden beauty. Standing still and listening to the breeze in the leaves, the rustle in the grass of a darting water dragon , the ducks on the lake. Looking up to discover two Tawny Frogmouths staring down at me.
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image “
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standing at the edge.
A new year begins with Autumn in the garden. The theme of this years work is' Traces of Landscape'.
“These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased. ”
“One looks,looks long, and the world comes in”
back to work! Into the last month of painting in the garden. Painting what I love most.
Summer is here.
“Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.”
