Greville Smyth Pine
Drypoint etching with chine collé. Printed on 300gsm Fabriano printmaking paper. Plate measures 30cm x 45cm, paper measures 46cm x 63cm. Signed, titled and numbered in an edition of 10.
This print considers how we view the contemporary sublime landscape and how easy it can be to experience when we take the time to look. We often don’t have to travel far: parks in cities, the coastline and stars in the night sky. The mature Scots Pine tree pictured here grows in my local park in Bristol.
This body of work is based on the book by Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree. Trees communicate via mycorrhizal fungi to trade water and other nutrients. Ancient and mature trees nurture their offspring via these networks, as well as trading nutrients between other species. Botanist Simard has spent years working on this theory as part of a wider body of work, discovering what it means for forests, the climate and the wider Anthropocene.