Garden Stories

Lockdown 2021: It’s an up-size-down world

Inspired by the small world viewed daily in the confined space of a garden and noticing familiar things anew – the beauty of ‘weeds’ and roots.

Sian gathering garden grasses
Sian gathering garden grasses

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buttercup roots
Buttercup roots
buttercup roots
Buttercup roots

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Discovering ways of using processes and materials in a different context; making paper and colours from plant fibres – buttercups and nettles; moulding around pebbles.

covered pebbles in display case
covered pebbles in display case

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rings of couched bindweed
rings of couched bindweed

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‘Round and Round the Garden’ – paper stained with inks made from buttercups and nettles. Added stitching and couched bindweed.

rings of couched bindweed
Rngs of couched bindweed

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Sian working in studio on gathered grasses
Sian working in studio on gathered grasses