Scots Pine
Drypoint etching with chine collé. Printed on 300gsm Hahnemühle paper. Plate measures 30cm x 45cm, paper measures 46cm x 63cm. Signed, titled and numbered in an edition of 20.
This print depicts a mature pine tree, standing proud from the rest of the tree line. The use of gampi chine collé with it's delicate sheen, helps to give an ethereal glow to the majestic tree to elicit an emotional sublime connection.
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.