Tropical Abstracts

Tropical Abstracts

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh ref belo

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” 

― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

New works of digital imagery now in progress hope to complete soon...

My main projects are inspired by the natural world. I explore the culmative cause and effects of human activities upon habitats and ecosystems. My work is often a response to currrent issues concerning climate change -  and often informed by reasearching articles and authors such as Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson and George Monboit.  Brazilian Artist Franz Krajeberg, whose dedication to protect the natural world over a number of decades, opened up a new way of seeing the human impact on our planet and a need for dedicated alternative views and responses to emerge ...My works below are in response to the use and knock on effects of industrial pesticides, these detrimental effects on insect species such as butterflies and moths ... then have a further knock on effect to bird species . The series Tropical Abstraction portray a single butterfly in a vibrant abstracted space. The creature is isolated from its natural habitat in order to empasise the pracarity of ecosystems impacted by industrial deforestation /farming 

... don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Paul Gauguin

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43828.Aldo_Leopold

http://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/nature-and-art.html