Detail of Regine Hagerdorn’s Rosiers
This week was meant to be something of a break, but I have been working pretty much flat out, with Volans doing a major email out to our contacts around the world – which has had me respnding to hundreds of email replies. Have also been working on a column for Director magazine, an article I’m co-authoring with Mark Lee and the WEC project. So this morning Elaine dragged me off to Kew Gardens, to give me a bit of exercise and get some fresh air in my lungs. And what a wonderful treat it was.
High points included (literally) the new aerial walkway and (aesthetically) the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. hadn’t thought I much liked botanical paintings, but there were many would have gladly grabbed off the walls here and run away with. Did buy Shirley Sherwood’s book A Passion for Plants, for its reproductions of many of the more recent paintings in the collection. One of the ones I liked best was by Regne Hagerdorn, Rosiers. It showed a series of different rose stems — and to my eye looked like a botanical score for some form of music that you would need some form of kinesthesia to hear.
Aerial walkway 1
Aerial walkway 2
Chestnut leaf-miner
Leaf-miners 2
Walkway surface
Temperate House
Elaine, aerially
Walkway again
Support
Elaine and metal tree
Walkway embraces
Fall leaves 1
Shirley Sherwood
Fungi
Fall leaves 2
Carved stomata
Sculptural version of a tree root
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