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In this etching I use lithographically printed chine collé tissue to represent the bright yellow of the autumn leaves, as I experienced them in Ashton Court Estate on a sunny late Autumn - early Winter day. Detailed drawing into the plate is used to draw the viewer into the tangled mass of branches of the mature oak tree.
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.
