Botanical Conservation Project (in progress) — Penny Leaver Green

In the break between Lockdowns last November, there was an opportunity for me to visit the wonderful Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh and I persuaded a generous gardener to give me a selection of redundant horticultural labels which had been consi

The work will provide a lasting memorial to a plant that was, and a reminder not only of the transience of nature, but also of our responsibility to protect it and ensure that it survives.

Ultimately, having been displayed as a collection (as the plants once were) the individual pieces will then find permanent homes on a variety of walls - in the same way that a seed might be dispersed.

In 1976 my father my father spent about 6 months helping to set up a medical school in Ile- Ife in Nigeria. Times were different then and he collected butterflies which he brought back in tupperwear boxes between sheets of loo paper, and remained un

Along side Otto Marseus van Schrieck ‘s still life

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In the break between Lockdowns last November, there was an opportunity for me to visit the wonderful Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh and I persuaded a generous gardener to give me a selection of redundant horticultural labels which had been consi

The work will provide a lasting memorial to a plant that was, and a reminder not only of the transience of nature, but also of our responsibility to protect it and ensure that it survives.

Ultimately, having been displayed as a collection (as the plants once were) the individual pieces will then find permanent homes on a variety of walls - in the same way that a seed might be dispersed.

In 1976 my father my father spent about 6 months helping to set up a medical school in Ile- Ife in Nigeria. Times were different then and he collected butterflies which he brought back in tupperwear boxes between sheets of loo paper, and remained un

Along side Otto Marseus van Schrieck ‘s still life