In November 2018 I did an extremely enjoyable residency at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, in Hong Kong. The farm is involved in Nature conservation, education and sustainable living.
I made a woodcut on a large piece of camphor endgrain, from the hillside. It was hard wood but wonderfully compliant. I focused on native species, and learnt that one plant is pollinated by rats and bats, and another by civet cats.
I was very lucky and thrilled to be there at the same time as the renowned primatologist, Dame Jane Goodall. I remember well being shown a copy of National Geographic with a picture of her with chimpanzees at Gombe Park, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, when I was 14. I admired her then, and I admire her even more now. At 84, she is travelling the world, educating the young and encouraging them through Roots & Shoots to implement practical positive change for people, animals and the environment by providing teachers with free resources and activities. She has also founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a global organisation that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. She visited the Art house where I was printing, and I was honoured that she named my print, which makes it really special to me. ‘Kadoorie’s living tapestry’.’
I made a woodcut on a large piece of camphor endgrain, from the hillside. It was hard wood but wonderfully compliant. I focused on native species, and learnt that one plant is pollinated by rats and bats, and another by civet cats.
I was very lucky and thrilled to be there at the same time as the renowned primatologist, Dame Jane Goodall. I remember well being shown a copy of National Geographic with a picture of her with chimpanzees at Gombe Park, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, when I was 14. I admired her then, and I admire her even more now. At 84, she is travelling the world, educating the young and encouraging them through Roots & Shoots to implement practical positive change for people, animals and the environment by providing teachers with free resources and activities. She has also founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a global organisation that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. She visited the Art house where I was printing, and I was honoured that she named my print, which makes it really special to me. ‘Kadoorie’s living tapestry’.’
'THICKET' is being shown for the first time at the Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire, in their WINTER EXHIBITION, from 8th December 2018-12th January 2019, alongside Norman Ackroyd’s latest suite of twelve etchings, showing on the same dates.
‘Northern light’ selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018. Opens to the public from 12th June-19th August.
3rd - 6th May 2018
Pine Feroda
2018. London Original Print Fair.
Showing with the Brook Gallery
Royal Academy of Art
Burlington House, Picadilly,
Mayfair,
London. W1J 0BD
londonoriginalprintfair.com/the-fair/2018
27th - 29th April 2018
Pine Feroda
Fresh: Contemporary Art Fair
Showing with the Brook Gallery
Cheltenham Racecourse.
Evesham Road, Prestbury,
Cheltenham. GL50 4SH
www.freshartfair.net/
