As seen in the Salisbury Journal on 10/04/2024. In a bid to cheer up a neglected street corner, Salisbury resident Michael Stroud teamed up with his step-daughter, award-winning illustrator and meadow ecologist Vicky Bowskill, to install an eye-catching meadow mural in this disused shop window. This kind of educational artwork is the ideal use forContinue reading “Bringing a touch of summer to a Salisbury street corner”
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Burnet and Blue
Burnet: A most precious herb, the continual use of it preserves the body in health and the spirit in vigour. Culpeper Great burnet (Sanguisorba officianalis) is a stately denizen of our floodplain meadows – a larger cousin to the more diminutive salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) that you might find in upland calcareous grasslands or asContinue reading “Burnet and Blue”
From Shoots to Roots: revealing the above and below ground structure of meadow plants
This has been an amazing project to work on, combining my digital paintings with the botanical expertise of Irina Tatarenko at the Floodplain Meadows Partnership and the extensive research carried out by teams in Russia and the UK; check out the reference list for a taste of how much work is behind this. It showsContinue reading “From Shoots to Roots: revealing the above and below ground structure of meadow plants”
Inklusive Nature CIC 