This print utilises a lithographically printed chine collé layer for the yellow on warm Japanese kitakata washi paper.

I experienced this oak in Ashton Court Estate in late Autumn, early Winter on a clear, bright day, and I was surrounded by a beautiful sea of yellow. It was an almost unbelievably beautiful experience, but I had my camera with me to document the experience, as an aide-mémoire. This is, perhaps, the most successful of my coloured etchings to date.

This body of work is based on the book by Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree. Trees communicate via mycorrhizal fungi to trade water and other nutrients. Ancient and mature trees nurture their offspring via these networks, as well as trading nutrients between other species. Botanist Simard has spent years working on this theory as part of a wider body of work, discovering what it means for forests, the climate and the wider Anthropocene.