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a door in a cave... or a cave around a door ? and

a door in a cave... or a cave around a door ?
and the ‘importance of detail’ ... always

The Book of the Conservatory. P Marston 1992

... today in paint blobs

... today in paint blobs

some intriguing plant based images that don’t fe

some intriguing plant based images that don’t feature ferns...

01. Miss Cotton, daughter of Kew’s Herbarium Keeper Arthur Cotton, sitting on a Victorian amazonica waterlily 1924
02. Children on lily pads in North Carolina 1892
03. Leaves of an Amazonian water lily
04. Crystal Palace design supposedly inspired by the ‘transverse girders and supports’ of a giant water lily. Joseph Paxton 1803 - 1865
05. Attendant in the tropical house Kew Gardens washing the leaves of a giant water lily 1935.

fern gangs all here ✊🏻 📷 by Joe Ruckli

fern gangs all here ✊🏻
📷 by Joe Ruckli

lavender. a colour I have somewhat hated until rig

lavender. a colour I have somewhat hated until right now.
*update - upon posted this, badbadnotgood - ‘lavender’ immediately plays unprompted on my playlist. I am now manifesting ~*lavender*~ in all forms and am off to make a million lavender scented candles

✨ having a lot of fun with multiple paint colour

✨ having a lot of fun with multiple paint colours in each brushstroke ✨

niche material: from ‘the British Fern Gazette’ published *quarterly* (!) from 1909
01: ladies are ‘particularly fitted’ to fern hunting
02: ‘cult’
03: there was a need for this publication to appear quarterly 🤯
04: ‘fern hunting episodes’ sounds like such an understatement it could be tongue in cheek. but I don’t know ... it’s hard to tell if the fern cult had a sense of humour

delicate painty blobs

delicate painty blobs

constantly aware that cutting corners when constru

constantly aware that cutting corners when constructing ferns would likely result in a forest of umbrellas ⛱⛱⛱