Nature’s Endurance
Catalogue
As you walk around the gallery, you will see numbers next to each artwork. Below is a list of these artworks corresponding to those numbers, with information about the piece and its price (if for sale).
You can find out more about the exhibition here.
1. Warm Shimmer
Artist: Emma Paton
Material: Gouache and coloured pencil on watercolour paper
Price: £200
About the artwork: This painting uses gold, green and the soft geometric shapes found in nature to create a shimmer reminiscent of the gentle shimmer of light on water or heat hovering over the horizon line.
To find out more about Emma Paton, visit: www.emmapaton.net or find Emma on Instagram @epatonz.
2. Right to Roam
Artist: Sue Ripley
Material: Watercolour, ink and gouache on watercolour paper
Price: £165
About the artwork: The artwork depicts hedgerow foliage entwined with barbed wire depicting the importance of maintaining the 'right to roam' and continued opportunities to enjoy and celebrate the natural world.
For more information about Sue Ripley, visit @sueripleyart on Instagram.
3. Destruction of Our Pale Blue Dot I
Artist: Lewis Andrews
Material: Melted ice, ink and Indian ink on watercolour paper
Price: NFS
About the artwork: ‘Destruction of Our Pale Blue Dot’ focuses on the destruction we're causing to our oceans through activities at sea, such as oil drilling and pollution, whilst simultaneously touching upon the issue of our oceans being unable to absorb anymore carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, thereby decreasing the amount of time we have to reverse climate change. The drawing was created over an elapsed time period as ice blocks melted into the Indian ink to create the drawing. This process echoes the notion of our planet losing its sea ice and acts as a reminder that we only have a short amount of time left to reverse this damage before it’s too late. With our activities across the planet increasing the harmful gases within our atmosphere, the oceans are no longer capable of absorbing any more carbon dioxide and accelerating the effects of climate change. Our planet, once referred to by Carl Sagan as a ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is suffering and dying.
4. Autumnal Leaf (Nothing gold can stay)
Artist: Louise Garland
Material: Wall relief with reclaimed wood and mixed media.
Price: £430
About the artwork: This piece ponders the rhythmical transience of the seasons, and the continuity of life. The changing colours of the autumnal leaf, seemingly reaching the end of its life, forms new organic matter. We too are made from organic matter, but have the potential to transform into a higher state of being.
For more information about Louise Garland, visit: www.axisweb.org/p/louisegarlandart. Louise is on Instagram @louisegarlandart.
5. Breathe
Artist: Skye Linscott-Crisp
Material: Oil on canvas
Price: £250
About the artwork: The piece explores the parasitic relationship that humans inflict on nature.
For more information about Skye Linscott-Crisp, visit: @skyelc_art on Instagram.
6. Meadow
Artist: Flóra O. Hartyándi
Material: Textile sculpture
Price: £350
About the artwork: This piece is inspired by heather and gorse in blossom on Dartmoor (UK). The sculpture is made from self-collected wool, found metal basket and sticks and yarns made by local companies.
Flóra supports nature over people and sees hope in plants growing in the wild, among other things. They are almost impossible to destroy.
For more information about Flóra Hartyándi, see https://floraoh.wordpress.com and https://punctuallypunch.com. Flóra is also on Facebook and Instagram (@flora_o_hartyandi).
7. Redacted Map of the North Pole
Artist: Grant Lambie
Material: Black thread sewn through map
Price: £200
About the artwork: As countries fight over who owns parts of the North Pole, the artist wanted to see what it looked like with all the names taken away: here is the North Pole redacted and as such owned by no one.
8. Shrill Carder Bee
Artist: Jayne Dickinson
Material: Textiles (recycled silk tie fabric)
Price: £200
About the artwork: The artist recycles textiles in their artwork, specifically second-hand silk ties. The artist starts with a drawing, and then deconstructs the design through transferring the individual components to physically delicate, visually vibrant pieces of silk, which they machine stitch applique using fine thread to a (repurposed) background fabric. The artist is often inspired by nature, including endangered bees/pollinators such as this Shrill Carder Bee, insects and garden creatures.
For more information about Jayne Dickinson, see: www.jaynedickinsonsilkart.co.uk. Jayne is also on Instagram @jaynedickinsonsilkart.
9. Day
Artist: Moira Benoit
Material: Watercolour, inks, resist
Price: £880
About the artwork: A vivid watercolour painting.
10. Up-Cycled Moths
Artist: Kate White
Material: Mixed media textile
Price: Please enquire
About the artwork: Kate White has explored the dichotomy of the destructiveness of moths and the recreation that can be achieved by up-cycling.
The artist’s moths have been created using black bin bags and self embellished papers. They land haphazardly upon the fabric and the ubiquitous holes within the white bin bags expose further layers of cloth. The intricate designs on the fabric are a representation of patterns found in textile weave and moth wings.
Techniques include: dyeing and colour applications using self designed screens and resists, heat distortion, machined cords, free motion machine embroidery, appliqué and hand stitching.
For more information about Kate White, visit: @katiewooltextiles on Instagram.
11. Ode to Trees
Artist: Fiona Pattison
Material: Poem and illustration
Price: Please enquire
About the artwork: A poem and accompanying artwork.
12. Swan with Flowers
Artist: Rebekah Walker
Material: Mixed media
Price: £200
About the artwork: The artist has explored combining ornaments and flowers to represent bringing nature into the home.
13. Storm
Artist: Robert Verrill
Material: Assemblage
Price: £150
About the artwork: The artist’s work ‘Storm’ is composed entirely of found objects with the exception of the sand. A cascade of hundreds of found plastic cable ties, of various colours and linked in ‘chains’ with found telephone junction wire offcuts, appears to pour out of the turbulent seascape framed print of an imaginary storm. The storm appears to threaten to overwhelm an idealised sleeping coastal town that is perhaps unaware of the imminent danger. The trailing cables seem to be simultaneously pouring into and growing out of three plastic takeaway food trays of builders' sand which sit in the lid of a polystyrene fish box of the type fresh fish is delivered to your local chippy in. The work references the role that continuing exploitation of unsustainable resources (particularly oil, as represented by the various forms of plastic and the sans which references the desert/seabed source of most crude oil) plays in our worsening environmental crisis.
14. 187.176.33.25
Artist: Luisa Vidales Reina
Material: Photography, pigment on paper, Instagram grid
Price: NFS
About the artwork: 87.176.33.25 is a site-specific visual plant dictionary that seeks to understand a specific IP address through observation and dialogue with the plants present in the physical location of said address. The plants are divided in the structure of an IP address: there are Network and Host plants. The Network part refers to the plants that live in the general environment or community (outside the house), while the Host section ones are the plants that live indoors. For the dictionary, each plant has entries in three different “languages”, with the aim to include various perspectives and avoid important elements getting lost in human translation. These languages are: plantagraphs, a digital (as in from the fingers) representation of the plant’s morphology and movements; photographs showing detail, colour, light and texture; and plant fortunes, a message typed as a dialogue between the plant’s movements and the phone’s autocorrect. The dictionary uses Instagram’s grid as a blueprint for the construction of a digital garden. This piece was created in response to the massive digitalization derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the IP address became more relevant for daily activities (work, study, contact with friends and family, etc.) than the physical address. This piece was shown at Tandem Galería in 2021, and at Moloch Galería Taller from May to July 2022, both in Mexico City.
15. Darkly Fringe the Violet Sky
Artist: David Ian Bickley, Sapphire Goss and Shin Yu Pai
Material: Video
Price: NFS
About the artwork: The title of this work is taken from the writings of early English rural poet Edward Thomas. Thomas has an uncanny ability to modernise Victorian thought and float this on the surface of insightful observations of nature. Taking this as a stimulus we created a series of images in both picture, word and sound that cast an abstract lens over a still forest in winter.
16. A View with a Room
Artist: Lucy Barker
Material: Digital film using second hand mobile phone
Price: NFS
About the artwork: Covid-19 curtailed Lucy’s plans for an artist residency in Lanzarote and flared symptoms of chronic fatigue. Lucy made this film during self-isolation by using a second hand smart phone to film the view from her bedside window at least once a day. It contains fragments from 36 films and is silent up until toward the end, where Lucy has added a field recording made on her first walk to the field that she could see from her bed.
‘express; there is only the moment and your expression of it, using the means available at the time, no matter what form or language it might take’ from Process: A Tomato Project.
To find out more about Lucy Barker, visit: www.lucy-barker.co.uk. Lucy is also on Twitter and Instagram @bucylarker.
17. Kiss Me
Artist: Simona Nastac and Ruxandra Mitache
Material: Video and animation
Price: NFS
About the artwork: A poetic and immersive voyage into the world of plants to rediscover love and explore how to re-entangle ourselves with nature’s sentience and beauty.
For more information about Simona Nastac, see: www.facebook.com/simona.nastac.3 and @simonanastac on Instagram. For more information about Ruxandra Mitache, see @ruxandra_mitache on Instagram.
18. The End of the World as we know it
Artist: Susanne Layla Petersen
Material: Video
Price: NFS
About the artwork: ‘The End of the World as we know it’ originally consists of 7 videos and 20 images, this is a screener with all the videos.
Filming locations for the project were Ilulissat Icefiord, Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Muir Woods.
19. House on the Hill, South Italy
Artist: Laurelle Kamara
Material: Digital photography using a Lumix S1 camera and 85mm lens
Price: £250
About the artwork: This is a photograph taken from a tour boat whilst travelling along the south coast of Italy to get to Positano. The artist noticed a large rain cloud rolling over the mountains of the large cliff edges and a small filter of sunlight shone down upon a huge hotel. The artist’s initial thought was how on earth people managed to get down there let alone build an entire construction on the cliff edge and it brought Laurelle to reflect on how we as humans are able to infiltrate some of the most peaceful nature spots.
For more information about Laurelle Kamara, visit https://photobylaurelle.com, www.facebook.com/photobyLaurelle or follow @photobylaurelle on Instagram.
20. Spikes
Artist: Willie Robb
Material: Photogram of an organic stain
Price: £350 for the mounted print, £250 for the print itself.
About the artwork: The photogram / organic stain was influenced by the escalating number of homeless people in Brighton. It's hard to engage with an individual if you have nothing to say so Willie looked at the ground, as many do, and found flowers and fauna penetrating the pavement crust. Willie found a glimmer of optimism there.
Seemingly a very fragile life can grow and thrive in a hostile environment if given even a tiny amount of sunshine. Willie made photograms / organic stains using the plants by pressing them into large format film. After a week Willie shone a little blue light onto them before developing and scanning the negative.
For more information about Willie Robb, visit http://willierobb.com.
21. Last tree standing
Artist: Philippe Handford
Material: Mixed media (steel and natural materials).
Price: £1,500
About the artwork: A steel frame trunk with a single leaf stands on a natural tree root base. It is a comment on trees being felled and the changing cityscape where birds now nest in man made structures that have replaced tree canopies.
For more information about Philippe Handford, visit: www.handforddesign.co.uk/sculpture.html. Philippe is also on Instagram @philippehandford.
22. The Blue Where You Grow
Artist: Jen Workman
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: £500
About the artwork: In 'The Blue Where You Grow', Jen has tried to capture that essence of blue that you feel and can see on winter walks. Jen identified that blue can represent a sense of cold and sterility. But in this painting, Jen has tried to use different shades of the colour to promote a feeling of new life emerging, from below the dying leaves and from the dark vastness of the rock - in the form of mushrooms.
Jen wanted to try and portray that in nature, life can come from death in seemingly insignificant but minutely beautiful ways.
For more information about Jen Workman, visit: http://jenworkmanart.com/. Jen is also on Instagram at @jenworkmanart.
23. Rainbow Leaf
Artist: Lucy Arden
Material: The artist used her son’s broken wax crayons, a roll of basic paper and a magnificent horse chestnut leaf (actual size of leaf)
Price: £100
About the artwork: In 2020 the world stopped, we stopped but nature carried on. Restricted to one walk a day, the artist, her husband, son and dog explored places they had never discovered before around their village, guided by nature and resplendent bird song. This beautiful horse chestnut leaf captures a memory of that time, in all its technicolour glory.
To find out more about Lucy Arden, visit www.lucyarden.co.uk or follow @lucyardenmotherartist on Facebook and Instagram.
24. Rest Your Weary Heart
Artist: Leonie Briggs
Material: Textile, felt, embroidery and wool
Price: £140
About the artwork: A heart laid in a bed of moss, plants growing from the heart.
25. Rajashthan 6
Artist: Vera Akotuah
Material: Acrylic paint and assorted flowers on canvas
Price: £125
About the artwork: The artist does yoga outside in the natural environment in Victoria Park, and is also a rep for an artist residency in India where the art is inspired by colourful Rajasthan made up of places like bright pink city Jaipur and cool blue Jodpur. The artist created this series of green canvases with real flowers, including roses, daisies, sunflowers, lilac and peonies.
For more information about Vera Akotuah, visit: @yogaethicalartcards on Instagram.
26. hauntings 1
Artist: Eileen White
Material: Silver gelatin photographic print. hand-applied emulsion onto recycled paracetamol packaging using a hand-coated recycled glass slide in an antique Watson field camera, using plant developer. The packaging contained drugs that relate to the image shown on the front.
Price: £250
About the artwork: The artist’s practice is concerned with researching and making visible their experience of being in a specific landscape, alongside an awareness of our entanglements to place, history and our impact on nature. At a time when ecosystems and climate breakthrough is leading us to rethink our relationship with nature and the living world, studying vegetable matter has become a powerful indicator for highlighting current issues and a new political narrative of living in harmony with the earth.
Taking part in a current residency at the Chelsea Physic Garden has enabled the artist to take a botanical journey through deep time, both historically, scientifically and seasonally. Through focusing their lens on plants connected to cognitive function as well as their relationships to rites of passage and pagan festivals, the artist has unearthed the entangled and fragile relationships that exist between humans and non-humans, as well as our connection to horticultural, medicinal and human history. Essentially this means taking time to create work using an ethical and caring framework.
As such, the artist researches alternative ways to think about their relationship with the Earth that are less environmentally destructive, by using slow, repetitive, low- tech, analogue print and photographic processes, plant-based alternative chemicals as well as recycling and gardening.
This new body of work focusing on snowdrop plants, centres on the many complicated and at times contradictory traditions, metaphors and scientific connections associated with this plant. Reusing medicinal packaging, in this instance headache and migraine packaging alludes to the healing connections of this plant that were first mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey as a protection against memory loss and has been used traditionally as a cure for headaches by rubbing the plant on the forehead. Science has now identified these chemicals as being an effective drug used in the treatment of Alzheimers.
For more information about Eileen White, visit: www.eileenwhite.co.uk. Eileen is also on Instagram and Twitter @eileenwhiteart.
27. Coexisting
Artist: Sophie Hall
Material: Photography
Price: Please enquire
About the artwork: These images taken in my local area of Keighley, West Yorkshire, show the gritty and harsh realities of humanity crashing right through the centre of nature and nature's resilience to carry on thriving and growing around these obstacles.
28. Stranger than Fiction 14, Epigenesis
Artist: Christian Goddard
Material: Oil on canvas
Price: £500
About the artwork: Christian Goddard is a UK painter who pushes the conversation around ecology, the environment and existence through the prism of Surrealism. Depicting entities both at once foreign and alien, his works materialise in a place of imagination begging for consideration but ultimately denying full comprehension. Goddard’s beings appear as aberrations of familiar landscapes, geological formations that are mutated anew in twisted abnormalities. Embedded with remnants of human features they at times invite the viewer to recognize a humanity within them and connect with nature through a shared empathy. The creatures which inhabit the world of ‘Stranger than Fiction’ act as timely apparitions, prophetic and cautionary to mankind’s intervention with the world we are so greatly dependent on. As sea levels rise, countries alight in flames and glaciers recede from the space they once laid claim, Goddard’s paintings will continue to chart an inevitable transformation which is already so advanced it just may be too late to restrain.
29. Ancient Olive Tree
Artist: Beryl Mason
Material: Pencil drawing
Price: NFS
About the artwork: Beryl Mason, is a resident at Angelcare, Greetland. This pencil drawing of a 400 year old olive tree, executed since her 99th birthday. Beryl is an example of nature's endurance in itself!
30. Lichen
Artist: Charlotte Faith
Material: Copper
Price: NFS
About the artwork: An oxidised copper broach reflecting the patterns and forms in lichen - an extremely resilient organism that can grow anywhere in many conditions. Lichen is one of the gems of nature that fights against circumstances that would kill many plants and organisms.
For more information about Charlotte Faith, follow @charsfaith.art on Instagram.
31. Wither Away
Artist: Claire Bennett
Material: Embroidery using predominantly back stitch with a running stitch background
Price: NFS
About the artwork: This piece highlights the destructive impact of human activity on nature, focusing on the ever increasing fragility of plant life, our lack of respect for the natural environment and the consequences which have and still are leading to the demise and extinction of many species.
32. Pixie Cup Lichen
Artist: Katie Bates
Material: Ceramic
Price: £60
About the artwork: A gleeful model of a little treasure that grows abundantly on stone walls in the Calder Valley, pixie cup lichen (Cladonia asahinae). This cheerful lichen looks like a choir singing to the world around it. A reminder to avoid rushing, and to spend the time looking closely at the wonders around us.
For more information about Katie Bates, see @katieb_pottery on Instagram.
33. Urban Arcadia
Artist: Laura Marker
Material: Photographic prints onto a pair of glass magnifying lenses.
Price: £95 for both
About the artwork: The artist likes to walk around green areas of the suburb where they live, selecting places that have somehow escaped the destruction caused by development of the ever expanding city. The artist refers to old maps of the area and deliberately selects locations that have remained remarkably unchanged despite the urban and suburban sprawl that now surrounds. These areas are fragments of a pre-industrial landscape that appear as an echo of a past environment. The artist takes photographs of these valuable ‘countryside’ islands, where nature thrives within the city.
For more information about Laura Marker, visit: www.lauramarker.co.uk, www.facebook.com/marker.laura and @laura_marker on Instagram.
34. Young Nature
Artist: Alex Abel, Karl Mann and Ben Lockyer
Material: Digital image created using photographs in Photoshop and drawn on i-pad
Price: £38
About the artwork: This is a photo merge and collaboration with a 20 year old. The artist discussed the subject with them and wrote some of the comments he said to use over the image. The theme is beauty of landscape. shown in the mountains overlaid on his profile and the lack of care shown with the ravaged tree and blurred image.
For more information about Alex Abel, visit: https://alexabe8.wixsite.com/alexabelart. Alex is also on social media (Twitter: alexabel71, Instagram: alexabel23, Facebook: Alex Abel Art). For more information about Karl Mann, visit: @karl.mann.7 on Instagram. For more information about Ben Lockyer, visit: lcreations2003 on Instagram.
35. Upside Downgrowth
Artist: Hanna Bratlie
Material: Analogue Photography
Price: £20
About the artwork: A tree in the liminal stage between decay and growth. The photo is taken at St. Hanshaugen, Oslo.
36. Unnatural Habitat
Artist: Nerissa Cargill Thompson
Material: Embellished recycled fabric cast with concrete in waste plastic packaging
Price: £795
About the artwork: Wildlife is endangered due to habitat loss, environmental pollution and climate change. The embossed concrete depicts the ever-increasing urbanisation, but the contrast of the textiles shows how nature fights on between the cracks. This piece was originally commissioned as part of the Fifty Bees project.
For more information about Nerissa Cargill Thompson, visit www.nerissact.co.uk or follow @nerissact on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
37. Hidden Beauty
Artist: Silvia Cristobal Alonso
Material: Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Bamboo 290 gms
Price: £200
About the artwork: For Silvia Cristobal Alonso, we look upon nature in this familiar, comprehensive sense, as something of which we are part. However, all our knowledge of it is based on how it is encountered in perception, most notably vision (Eric Voegelin). Walking through nature, we find many forms, smells, textures and colours for our eyes to capture. As humans we seek ourselves in nature, physically and mentally, face to face with ourselves, to find balance in our mind and strength to endure the struggle of every day. We perceive the natural world as singular and special, which is continuously changing unexpectedly depending on the time, weather or season. In nature, we recall our childhood memories and breathe the air of freedom once again.
For more information about Silvia Cristobal Alonso, visit www.silviacristobalalonso.space or follow @silviasonia on Instagram.
38. Bikini
Artist: Anita Ursula
Material: Recycled carrier bags
Price: NFS
About the artwork: The bikini was crocheted out of Marks & Spencer carrier bags. The work is about plastic pollution in the ocean and it is about recycled art.
39. Berry Beautiful
Artist: Elaine Hook
Material: Recycled repurposed fabric, in the style of appliqué/patchwork and embellished with sequins, beads and hand embroidery.
Price: NFS
About the artwork: A piece of textile work celebrating all that is nature, with seed heads and berries, using recycled and repurposed fabrics.
For more information about Elaine Hook, please visit: https//hooksthreads.com. Elaine is also on social media:
Instagram: @elaine_hook_textile_artist
Facebook: @elaine hook textile and mixed media artist
Twitter: @hooks_n_threads
40. Scrap Wood and Other Ailments
Artist: Eliza Brown
Material: Acrylic painting on MDF (from the scrap bin)
Price: £400 as a set or £150 individually
About the artwork: These three paintings, grouped together under the title ‘Scrap Wood and Other Ailments’ celebrate three trees, known to the artist, that display a nuanced relationship between the natural world and humanity.
Individually distinguished on top of the unnaturally green ground, with a deliberate care to accurately capture the twists and turns of their very complex branches and bark textures, these trees have been made important, unique bodies within a world that celebrates instead an overgeneralised and impersonal ‘green and pleasant land’. They each feature an element that implies humanness:
The left tree features a burl, a round and enclosed growth of wood that signifies that the tree has dealt with and overcome an unknown ‘stress’ in its life. A burl is prized wood due to its unique grain formation. Would we celebrate our own stress this way? Are we, humanity, and our effect on the changing environment, the cause of this stress?
The middle tree, which stands behind my house, tilts harshly towards the left and is spray painted with a yellow dot. This tree is marked by humanity, and this subtle branding implies its fate. Is it destined for death due to its happenstance ‘obstruction’ of humanity’s footpath and potential impact should it fall on our garden? Have we thus been unknowingly responsible for the downfall of this being?
The third bears the rather grotesque surgical markings of a tree about to be amputated. A white line as the cut point, a vivid salmon ‘X’ on the targeted limb. Is this for the good of the tree or for the safety of humans around? Why have we thus decided that we know what is best for this tree? Does it know what is coming?
All three stand silent and leave our questions unanswered. They need not be human to be respected, yet they do not have a say in the impact of humanity upon them. Despite all of this, they grow on. They stand, stoic individuals and symbols of the perseverance, beauty, individuality and joy of nature.
For more information about Eliza Brown, follow @artist_elizabrown on Instagram.
41. Our Shores
Artist: Joy Clifton
Material: Watercolour
Price: £525
About the artwork: ‘Our Shores, White Beaked Dolphins’ captures these magical creatures travelling through the ocean. They are resident in British Coastal Waters and 80% of Europe’s population of them can be found here. The mix of cool ocean blues and turquoise mixed with pinks and violets represents how the ocean warming will push the whole population further north away from the UK coastline. As the water warms they could become locally extinct to the UK which would be devastating for the overall population.
42. Time Capsule
Artist: Rachel Fleming
Material: Neocolor II pastels and ink background with recycled materials: cardboard, fabrics, yarn, upholstery materials and beads as well as natural materials (stone and shell)
Price: Sold
About the artwork: Mixed media on canvas depicting the endurance of an ammonite (evidence of a life lived over 400 million years ago) a fossil has got to be the ultimate time capsule.
43. Human Behavior
Artist: Beatrice Badioli
Material: Mixed media (scratchbord, monotype, digital)
Price: Sold
About the artwork: This work is inspired by Björk's song ‘Human Behavior’ with the emphasis that there is no logic in human behaviour. The artwork was designed as a celebration of the animal side still present in us. For the artist, the environment around us is closely connected to how we perceive ourselves, and until we re-embrace our animal side, there will be little hope for nature.
To find out more about Beatrice Badioli, visit: @beatrice.badioli on Instagram.
44. Groundsel, Cathedral Grounds
Artist: Helen Thomas
Material: Acrylic on paper
Price: NFS
About the artwork: ‘ Groundsel, Cathedral Grounds’ celebrates a raggedy tangle of groundsel, navigating its lifecycle between slabs and around a discarded panel behind Wakefield Cathedral. The painting was made by working from a quick phone photo as the only reference, as the site had been 'tidied' when the artist returned a few days later.
For more information about Helen Thomas, visit: www.toastedorange.co.uk. Helen is also on social media:
Instagram: @HelenThomasArtist
Facebook: @HelenThomasArtist
Twitter: @ToastedOrange
45. faire Feu de tout bois
Artist: Iris Devauze
Material: Laser engraving on mixed media
Price: £300
About the artwork: A sculpture made of pictures of roots that are laser engraved on different materials. The title evokes the ability of nature to win over everything and to be able to grow even in the worst conditions.
46. Found Map 32 Leaf Series Lost Archipelago
Artist: Catherine Rive
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: £650
About the artwork: This artworks is part of a collection of paintings by Catherine Rive inspired by maps found in nature. Catherine’s series of paintings of maps contained in leaves suggest that nature has the answers; if we are willing to listen, to learn to read the signs, tracks and traces she generously shares with us.
To find out more about Catherine Rive, visit: www.catherinerive.co.uk or follow @catherine_rive on Instagram.
47. Grow
Artist: Emma Chippendale
Material: Spray, acrylic paints with inks, gold leaf on canvas, set in a gold floating frame
Price: £1995
About the artwork: The canvas 'Grow' is one in a series of paintings created in response to the parallels found within the vascular system of leaves during the autumnal season and that of our own vascular system. The autumnal season contains the most vibrant of colour formations, and depicts the fragility of nature as the leaves diminish, entering the final cycle of the year. Through the use of photo documentation and manipulation, the artist recreates sections of the leaves in a large scale format examining the fragility of poor physical and mental health. The piece reflects on how our internal and external environment mirror one another, and have the ability to health and regenerate.
For more information about Emma Chippendale, visit https://linktr.ee/emmachippendale.artist.
48. Winter Sunrise
Artist: Roger Fleming
Material: Wet in wet oils and cheap gloss paint!
Price: £100
About the artwork: In the early 1990s, Roger saw Bob Ross on the television and he made painting landscapes look so easy that Roger was inspired to have a go himself. With no experience or supplies and absolutely no clue what "liquid white" was, Roger went down to his cellar and found some old household gloss paint and started the background with that. Roger then bought a basic set of oil paints from Jowett and Sowery in town and this painting was the result. Painting has helped the artist to endure some pretty rough times in life, and nature is always changing and never fails to inspire Roger.
49. Rushing
Artist: Helen Jones
Material: Acrylic on cradled wood panel
Price: £150
About the artwork: For Helen Jones, the sea is a comfort and a threat, calming and beautiful, fearsome and awful but it continues however we respond. Mesmeric or violent the movement of the waves is captivating and demands that the artist try to translate it into paint.
For more information about Helen, visit www.helenruthjones.com or follow @helenjonesart on Instagram.
50. Peripheral Sites-79
Artist: Chih-Fen Tsai
Material: Photography
Price: £200
About the artwork: The artist chose the images of retaining walls as the focus to illustrate the fragility of the balance between nature and human beings.
51. Helvellyn and White Side
Artist: Vanessa Crome
Material: Monoprint
Price: NFS
About the artwork: Monoprints using black water based ink. ‘Helvellyn’ is a depiction of a mountain from the Lake District, while ‘White Side’ is a fell in the Lake District. The artist focuses on capturing both the texture of a mountain but also the geological formation that occurs within and shapes it over time.
To find out more about Vanessa, follow @vanessacromeart on Instagram.
52. Moorland Edge
Artist: Steven Brown
Material: Collagraph print hand coloured with watercolour
Price: £300
About the artwork: The wild flowers and grasses at the edges and borders of fields are often overlooked, but provide a vital mix of habitat for small creatures. This collagraph print was made using foraged materials from walks around Rossendale Valley. It focuses on a small part of the landscape, the margins and edges that transition our natural spaces.
To find out more about Steven Brown, visit @stevebrownprint on Instagram.
53. The Forest
Artist: Sarah Brown
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: £740
About the artwork: This painting explores ideas around the mythological characters of Pan and the Nymphs who are protectors of the forest and nature. The mystical and slightly dark scene depicts the forest's response to a hunter.
54. The Manningham Fox
Artist: Miriam Murch
Material: Acrylic on canvas
Price: NFS
About the artwork: This is a view from Lumb Lane in Bradford of the former Drummond Mill. The Mill burned down 20 years ago or so and all that is left is the visitors' entrance with intercom.
55. Finch
Artist: Rosie O’Neill
Material: Oil on board
Price: NFS
About the artwork: A finch falling out of the sky.
56. Rhythms of The Land
Artist: Lottie Simpson
Material: Drawing made from solely natural materials (driftwood, sandstone and charcoal)
Price: £160
About the artwork: The artwork is a large drawing thinking of the land as a living-being connected by vein-like roads or paths rather than being passive.
To find out more about Lottie Simpson, visit @lottie__lyons on Instagram.
57. New Growth
Artist: Tilly Abby
Material: Acrylic painting
Price: £140
About the artwork: Tilly Abby’s piece ‘New Growth’ depicts an area of the artist’s favourite forest that was felled. The space was left barren and dry, but slowly nature is breaking through and new life is beginning.
For more information about Tilly Abby, visit: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076451004187.
58. Forest
Artist: Kristin Mackinnon
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: £395
About the artwork: This painting was inspired by healing forest walks. The artist finds the beauty of nature to be extremely beneficial for their mental health. While nature endures the climate crisis, it consistently provides solace in the difficult times we face in life.
59. Hubris/Humility
Artist: Genevieve Sawyer Males
Material: This piece incorporates photographs, oil paintings, glue, and chalks.
Price: Please enquire
About the artwork: This piece is a digital assemblage of multiple works, speaking to the interconnectedness in ecology and our nuanced relationship to the world. We seek to control and tame it, but its resilience and profound beauty endure. The photographs are of a managed forest and a forest that has been felled for rewilding the species typically found in the Ancient Caledonian Forest.
60. Residue
Artist: Denise Roth
Material: Photography, C-Print
Price: £65
About the artwork: The artwork is a memory formed over stone. To what extent can we take from nature? When do we endanger the fragile ecosystem? Is there a way we can still collect, take a piece home with us?
The empty form, the negative. Like the uncountable lichens next to it, forming a temporary symbiosis with the stone. They have been here before us, they will outlast us.
The work of the series ‘what is left’ is concerned with the traces that we leave behind. The picture was taken during a stay in Hälleviksstrand, Sweden.
61. growin on me
Artist: CJ Barr
Material: Macro photography, digitally printed and mounted on 2mm MDF
Price: £100 each, or £350 for 4
About the artwork: Series of 4 images capturing the natural growth of fungi on trees and branches near the River Dee in Aberdeen.
To find out more about CJ Barr, visit: https://cj-create.wixsite.com/cj-barr. CJ is also on Instagram @_cj_visual.
62. (dis)locations
Artist: Aurelie Criseteg
Material: Photography
Price: £30
About the artwork: ‘(dis)locations’ depicts the alteration of landscapes through digital topography. Each scenery represents a variation of time and space. Captured at different moments, every pattern of land is merged into a single image created by satellite renderings. The patchwork of digital mapping composed of fragmented landscapes expresses the technological difficulties of precisely representing a location on Earth. These abstract sceneries found online describe a paralleled reality where seasons and time are combined and blend into each other, forming a dreamlike landscape. These transfigurations depict the unpredictable development of landscapes during our tumultuous time.
63. (h)edge
Artist: Micol Muratori
Material: Screenprint on paper
Price: £85
About the artwork: The work aims to show the interrelationship of nature, the cosmos and the human being, and to highlight its constant movement and transformation. It questions the way in which nature responds and adapts to changes brought about by humanity and the resulting pollution and destruction of the environment. The process of making the drawing itself reflects these transformations, through chance operations by drawing over intuitive lines, finding harmony within chaos, and using different techniques for different stages, such as drawing and printing, between instinctive and technological processes. The resulting abstract piece translates shapes and movements present in nature, chaotic and geometric at the same time.
To find out more about Micol Muratori, visit: @micol.mur on Instagram.
64. Consume
Artist: Philip Vaughan-Williams
Material: Book Work (wall mounted) (wood, paper, metal, bitumastic paint)
Price: £145
About the artwork: A wood and metal sculptural book work exploring the tension between human engineered and natural materials. As humans consume so does nature, reflecting our hunger for knowledge which risks self destruction and the destruction of the artwork itself.
65. This Land is Your Land
Artist: Jayne Machin
Material: Textiles wet felted with hand and machine stitch
Price: £460
About the artwork: This piece is part of a series of works produced for Jayne’s ‘Spaces to be' project (funded by Wakefield Cultural Grants). The piece is inspired by an open space in Wakefield known as Wrenthorpe Meadow and is accompanied by a 3 minutes soundscape, including sight specific sounds and composed music, to enhance the experience of the artwork and enable visually impaired viewers to get a feeling of the Wrenthorpe Meadow. The piece is also not under glass so it can be enjoyed by touch too.
For more information about Jayne Machin, visit: www.artbyjaynemachin.co.uk.
66. The Lost Mayan Pyramid
Artist: Emma Cox
Material: Collage of pressed flowers on top of an acrylic landscape painting.
Price: NFS
About the artwork: A Mayan inspired building, long lost civilization hidden in nature.
67. Bee Sanctuary
Artist: Anita Gwynn
Material: Monotype drawing, collage, collagraph
Price: £350
About the artwork: The artist’s work is a celebration of the relationship of the bees and the plants and of the sanctuary that a wildlife garden provides to help these pollinators survive. These little holes provide a nursery for solitary bees which are absolutely necessary for the continuation of any species.
68. Desk
Artist: Louis Benoit
Material: Collaged desk
Price: Please enquire
About the artwork: A desk decorated with Louis’ drawings and filled with natural curiosities.
69. Forest
Artist: Barbara Larkin
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: NFS
About the artwork: A winter walk in the forest, celebrating nature.
To find out more about Barbara Larkin, visit: https://linktr.ee/BLStudioYorkshire. Barbara is also on Instagram @blstudioyorkshire.
70. Tubed and Staked #2
Artist: Catherine Baker
Material: Photopolymer Gravure print on Fabriano Rosapina 285gsm, carbon-fibre rods and linen bookbinding thread.
Price: £270
About the artwork: This work was part of a series produced for the artist’s solo exhibition in 2022 at Edinburgh Printmakers that explores western ideas of perfection and constant measurement and the impact such ideals have on the natural world as mostly explored through patterns in tree growth.
To find out more about Catherine Baker, visit: www.catherinebaker.co.uk/ or @drcatherinebaker on Instagram.
71. Waste to Wonder
Artist: Assunta Miles
Material: Recycled polyester thread and paper food packaging
Price: £2,000
About the artwork: Taking inspiration from the symbiotic relationship and transformative process that takes place in the formation of lichen, food packaging and thread evolve in a mutually beneficial union. The paper supports the thread and in return the thread transforms the wastepaper, communicating that waste has the potential to be reused and can be beautifully transformed without damaging the planet. Lichen forms meander across a discarded framed image. By adapting our thinking and reusing, we enable our planet to thrive and, in return, reshape our future.
To find out more about Assunta Miles, visit: www.assuntamiles.co.uk or @assuntamiles on Instagram.
72. Against all odds
Artist: Nicola Garvey
Material: Acrylic paint on canvas
Price: £150
About the artwork: ‘Against all odds’ is an acrylic landscape painting depicting a scene of lifting stormy skies and mist; a modern day metaphor for modern concerns in current complex times.
For more about Nicola Garvey, visit: https://artgarvey.wixsite.com/my-site-1?fbclid=PAAabxurAOQrjxRIJBVKEHRcuIOLjSOsbtjEW4YwvBjuzawZAk6do0qOYyQjU or follow @garvey_66 on Instagram.
73. Golden Russula
Artist: Hannah Murphy
Material: Watercolour, pencil crayon, drawing pens
Price: NFS
About the artwork: Drawing of a mushroom.
74. Remnants on an imagined Yorkshire coast cliff walk
Artist: Phil Roberts
Material: Oil on Canvas
Price: £2750
About the artwork: The artist has been developing subjects influenced by centuries of graffiti (modern, Neolithic or Roman), and remnants from the peak of Victorian construction, including spoils from major industrial projects in remote locations that create unique scars in the Dales and Moors. This painting mixes the artist’s experience of the coast close to their home, and the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales.
To find out more about Phil Roberts, visit: https://www.instagram.com/philtroberts/.
75. Abandoned Railway Line
75. Abandoned Railway Line
Artist: Alison Carthy
Material: Mixed media
Price: £80
About the artwork: Edgelands: celebrating the unofficial nature reserve.
The artist has been exploring the Edgelands around where they live in the Holme Valley. The valley’s textile industry has left it rich in industrial dereliction, un-noticed places transformed by wild things to create a patch-work of accidental nature reserves. Reclaimed by nature these no-man’s lands are vital refuges for wildlife. The artist’s work celebrates nature’s power to reclaim the wasteland.
76. An Ode to Autumn and the Toad
Artist: Katie Atkinson
Material: Mixed media on canvas
Price: £90
About the artwork: This artwork is a response to how we as humans need to show more love, kindness and respect to our planet, animals and nature. The artist believes that we need to get out of this spiral of destruction.
To find out more about Katie Atkinson, visit: @k.atkinsonart on Instagram.
77. Connect 1
Artist: Annie Fforde
Material: Etching/drypoint on Somerset paper
Price: £50
About the artwork: Communication of trees through root systems.
78. Composites I & II
Artist: Nikki Hafter
Material: Lichen, moss, glycerin, acrylic and Dutch metal
Price: £300 for each piece
About the artwork: 'Composites I & II' are a pair of wall-based artworks composed of preserved lichens and mosses that appear to be growing within, and spilling out of, frames. They are the first in a new series in which the artist has collected and preserved plant and fungal material found in her local landscape of the Chiltern Hills. Lichen are known for the mutualistic relationship of their component parts (fungi & cyanobacteria). In these artworks, the lichen forms a new symbiogenesis with each picture frame, via which it transitions from denigrated 'natural matter' into 'fine art' for display in human dwellings, repositioning the 'humble' designs of nature as worthy of human admiration and respect.
79. The Selborne View
Artist: Kate Anderson
Material: Ink on paper
Price: NFS
About the artwork: In the village churchyard the remains of a great yew tree still stand, in a slightly evolved format. Struck and blown over by a violent storm in 1990, villagers made concerted efforts to resurrect it without success. While digging, medieval pottery and human remains were found entwined amongst the roots. Today within the large yew tree stump a Silver Birch, Honeysuckle and Blackberry bush have taken residence, and, just recently, fresh shoots of the yew itself have sprung forth. The Hampshire village of Selborne was home to Gilbert White, a pioneering naturalist of the 18th century, who spent his life studying with great fascination the creatures, birds and ecology of his local area. He mentions this tree in his book ‘The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne’, remarking on its great age, the ubiquity of yews in churchyards, the toxicity of their leaves and berries. Part of my ‘Meeting Trees’ series, in which the artist travels the country making portraits of heritage trees and discovering their stories.
80. Blue Tits
Artist: Jo Smith
Material: Textiles
Price: NFS
About the artwork: These playful and colourful birds are frequent visitors to the artist's garden and are seen flying in and out of the hawthorn hedge to and from the bird feeders. Working on a background of hemp fabric hand dyed with tannin (from tea) and iron, then overdyed with leaves from the garden. The piece is hand stitched, working intuitively, using silk threads hand dyed with plants and flowers. The blue thread for the bluetits are dyed using woad leaves and the hawthorn leaves with weld (yellow) overdyed with woad, all grown in the artist's garden.
For more information about Jo Smith, visit @jo_smith_textile_artist on Instagram.
81. Deadhead #2
Artist: Michaela O'Sullivan
Material: Handmade papers, pigment, graphite.
Price: NFS
About the artwork: I am interested in cycles of growth and decay and the inherent beauty and oddness of these processes. Deadhead #2 is the second in a series, inspired by spent hydrangea flowers. Though fragile and papery, they are also resilient and somehow always make it through the winter.
To find out more about Michaela O'Sullivan, visit: http://michaelaosullivan.co.uk.
82. Saw-2
Artist: Lois Palframan
Material: Plant materials on canvas panel
Price: £200
About the artwork: Brown marks covering about half the panel, the rest of the panel the blank off-white canvas. Of many vertical streaks and lines, accumulated in the centre and to the right, forming a vague V shape of browns of varying intensity.
83. Nesting
Artist: Helen Walsh
Material: Monoprint with found natural materials
Price: £45
About the artwork: Made from found natural objects (dried grasses and feathers) this two layer monoprint creates a nest: a safe and nurturing space for us to recognise and appreciate both the beauty of nature and its critical importance. The use of gold ink highlights the preciousness of these seemingly low value materials and of our connection to the natural world. The feather reminds us of both the strength and fragility of the natural world.
84. Cow Parsley
Artist: Sarah O’Boyle
Material: Drawing on paper
Price: £150 (unframed)
About the artwork: A delicate drawing of a cow parsley plant.
For more information about Sarah O’Boyle, visit: @sarahoboyle100 on Instagram.
85. Regeneration
Artist: Patrick Will Baker
Material: Pencil on paper
Price: £85
About the artwork: Pencil study of a surviving ancient Scots pine in the Cairngorms, surrounded by new growth of young pines that have successfully seeded around it. This was in an area of rewilding, where young saplings are protected from grazing livestock in the hope of re-establishing some of the ancient forest that once covered the Highlands of Scotland, without the need for planting.
To find out more about Patrick Will Baker, please visit: www.createatwill.com. Patrick is also on Instagram at create.atwill.
86. Spring Rain
Artist: Sharon Rakhshan-Mofrad
Material: Graphite pencils on paper
Price: £50
About the artwork: Raindrops on leaves.
87. Shell
Artist: Serena Rogers
Material: A canvas with mixed materials from around the home, recycling string packaging from products, at different stages covered in household emulsion, acrylic and spray paint. The surface is sanded down with sandpaper. The shell is from Bridlington South Beach.
Price: TBC
About the artwork: This artwork was made in response to the raw sewage leaked into the sea off the east coast of Yorkshire in Summer 2022. Sewage was polluting the sea yet a perfect shell in the image endures. A torn piece of news print is included in reference to the small amount of publicity that this received.
For more information about Serena Rogers, visit @serenarogersart on Instagram.
88. After the Ice Caps Melt 1
Artist: Susan Wright
Material: Etched print with monotype on Somerset Satin paper
Price: £280
About the artwork: This print, made using a combination of etching and monotype, demonstrates what the Uk will look like if the ice caps melt. The background hints at what land there was before as, over many millennia, the climate has gradually affected the landmasses. Yet the changes are now happening much more quickly, the melting of the ice could happen within a single generation. It sends a cautionary message to us when we consider the impact of human instigated climate change. Islands and coastlines will fundamentally change. The planet will survive, but humanity will struggle. If we take heed of the message now, we can make fundamental changes to improve our lives and those of future generations.
89. Virtuous Circle
Artist: Titus Agbara
Material: Oil on canvas
Price: £13,200
About the artwork: Surrealist landscape depicting a virtuous circle. An interpretation of the artist’s mindful thought towards life and happenstance.