Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape [Hardcover]

Kurt Jacksons Botanical Landscape?is a new collection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by the artist and staunch environmentalist: responses to his engagement with and rich experience within the natural world of flora.

From day-to-day plants  weeds, the flowers in the hedge, familiar trees and the vegetable garden  to the more unusual, twisted forms and strange fruit of the undergrowth, Jacksons works celebrate the staggering diversity of the plant kingdom.?

For the art enthusiast, the naturalist, the gardener and the armchair horticulturist,Kurt Jacksons?Botanical Landscape?maps a particularly expressive communion with nature and offers a unique and beguiling interpretation of the natural world.

This newcollection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by renownedartist Kurt Jackson, celebrates the staggering diversity of the plantkingdom.

British artistKurt Jackson'spractice involves both plein air and studio work and embraces an extensive range of materials and techniques, including mixed media, large canvases, printmaking and sculpture. He has been Artist-in-Residence on the Greenpeace shipEsperanza, at the Eden Project and at Glastonbury Festival since 1999, and is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford University, while also holding an Honorary Doctorate from Exeter University for his services to the arts.Tim Smit?is Director of the Lost Gardens of Heligan and Co-founder of the Eden Project.?Robert Macfarlaneis an award-winning travel writer. He is the author of?Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination?(2003)The Wild Places(2007) and?The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot(2012).

Foreword by Tim Smit; Introduction by Robert Macfarlane;Author Preface; FOXGLOVE; WEEDS; GORSE; FIGS; FUNGI; OAK; APPLE; VEGETABLES;THORN; BRAMBLE; Kurt Jackson Biography; Selected solo exhibitions; Selectedgroup exhibitionsl#|