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(1060) Helen A Taylor - Garden Friends
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About this artwork
‘Garden Friends’ was made in response to the Encyclopaedia page I was sent from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopaedia Volume 6 The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land Some members of the insect family.
This tied in well with my work which is about man’s relationship with our planet and the influences we have over our environment. I chose insects from the page which are known to be helpful to gardeners and farmers, the Hover Fly and Ladybird which predate on pests harmful to garden plants and crops, these are garden friends and can replace harmful pesticides when allowed to flourish. The structure I have depicted in my print is loosely based on The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton and originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, Paxton was a renowned garden designer and his work and principles are inspiring to me, he used the leaves of the giant waterlily Victoria regia as a blueprint for the design of The Crystal palace, a fascinating partnership of plants with manmade objects.
About Helen
The main interest and inspiration in Helen Taylor’s art has always been the natural world and living forms. She is especially interested in trees and plants, and the ways in which we influence and change our natural landscapes, the effects of human activity, the relationship between organic and built environments.
Taylor is primarily a printmaker working in Lino and woodcut, recent work combines woodcut prints with hand-colouring in watercolour. Giving a greater range of colour, detail and texture to better fulfil the artist’s intention, which is to explore the natural world of trees, plants and flowers, and the amazing variety of colour and shape, the sheer diversity of what can grow in our own back gardens. And to explore plants which are bred and live in ‘captivity’; a possible future for many plant species, and for our experience of them, certainly those which may not be able to survive and adapt to long term changes to their environment.
Link to Helen’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Helen was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 6
The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land.
Some members of the insect family
‘Garden Friends’ was made in response to the Encyclopaedia page I was sent from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopaedia Volume 6 The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land Some members of the insect family.
This tied in well with my work which is about man’s relationship with our planet and the influences we have over our environment. I chose insects from the page which are known to be helpful to gardeners and farmers, the Hover Fly and Ladybird which predate on pests harmful to garden plants and crops, these are garden friends and can replace harmful pesticides when allowed to flourish. The structure I have depicted in my print is loosely based on The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton and originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, Paxton was a renowned garden designer and his work and principles are inspiring to me, he used the leaves of the giant waterlily Victoria regia as a blueprint for the design of The Crystal palace, a fascinating partnership of plants with manmade objects.
About Helen
The main interest and inspiration in Helen Taylor’s art has always been the natural world and living forms. She is especially interested in trees and plants, and the ways in which we influence and change our natural landscapes, the effects of human activity, the relationship between organic and built environments.
Taylor is primarily a printmaker working in Lino and woodcut, recent work combines woodcut prints with hand-colouring in watercolour. Giving a greater range of colour, detail and texture to better fulfil the artist’s intention, which is to explore the natural world of trees, plants and flowers, and the amazing variety of colour and shape, the sheer diversity of what can grow in our own back gardens. And to explore plants which are bred and live in ‘captivity’; a possible future for many plant species, and for our experience of them, certainly those which may not be able to survive and adapt to long term changes to their environment.
Link to Helen’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Helen was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 6
The World and its work-Agriculture, producing food from the land.
Some members of the insect family
Artist:
Helen A TaylorMedium:
Woodcut coloured with watercolour.Dimensions:
A4Price:
55 EUR