art and forests

Up a tree with Patrick Jones

I thought you might like to see the work of someone who wrote to me on my blog; these are his recent August sketches. Jones is an artist, poet, thinker, organic gardener, composter, father– and interested in looking deeply into the nature of his local environment and in earlier work, urban surroundings.  I don't think…Read more Up a tree with Patrick Jones

‘the reclaiming of the awareness of the world’…with poetry

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.” - Allen Ginsberg I've been caught up lately doing too much work but in odd moments I slip the words 'art and ecology' into search engines for other art forms to get a bit…Read more ‘the reclaiming of the awareness of the world’…with poetry

A complex world needs complex heroes

I was just going over all the material that I collected at the recent first UK Arts and Forestry meeting held in London last month, when I saw a note that I had written down, to look up a well known Slovenian film maker, Andrej Zdravic, who has recently done a film about forests. I…Read more A complex world needs complex heroes