Leaves

This was a woodcarving relief print. I’ve changed the colours digitally. It was based on a plane tree leaf that I picked up off the ground in Elwood in the year 2005. The panel on the left is drawn from the centre of the leaf, and the panel on the right is from the edge of the same leaf. The central panel is just woodgrain. This is about looking at how the structure of leaves recurs continually, growing out of the trunks and branches. It is about the life force of the tree which moves through the lines in the grain, and forms these shapes in the leaves:

This is a pen drawing / digital print that I finished in the year 2016. It is about the experience of living with fig trees in the backyard. Lots of Naarm / Melbourne backyards have fig trees in them. In the late summer when the fruit is ripe and the evenings are very warm, it can be quite beautiful outside watching the bats eating the figs:

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Deciduous trees are so inexorably connected with the solar yearly cycle:

SPRING:

SUMMER:

AUTUMN: