"HOUSE OF HERBARIA MAKE GIANT BOTANICAL PICTURES"
About
“I remember going to the bottom of the garden, to a forgotten swamp world of monstrous green creatures: a dense, jungle of undergrowth of massive and mysterious lifeforms. I loved them.
Now, when I go back, I’m struck by memories of my childhood and the many characters who walked and played there. Returning as an adult, I see them with fresh eyes and fresh understanding.
In their frames, the giant gunnera manicata leaves capture and hold still that ephemeral beauty of nature. Normally they wilt and die, but on walls they have become windows of time. Time is harsh and slowly degenerates, but if the memories of the past can be preserved, they are still alive…”
Tom Berington wanted to create something beautiful to hang on the wall and found the answer in gunnera leaves from the garden of his family home – a C15th Prior’s Hall, once attached to a neighbouring Benedictine monastery on the slopes of the Malvern Hills.
By attempting to create the ultimate pressed flowers, the enormous leaves are dried slowly and by hand, resembling ancient relief maps.
In communicating the temporal and fragile nature of things, fertile ground allowed his imagination and ideas to flourish, proving that art can pause the destructive power of time.
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Stockists
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DIFFERENT LIKE A ZOO
111 Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
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+44 (0) 20 7625 2705
Giant Leaves by House of Herbaria.
see examples at our London studio.
photo by antony crolla.
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Giant Leaves by House of Herbaria.
see examples at our London studio.
photo by antony crolla
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#herbaria #natureinspired
#livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
Giant Leaves by House of Herbaria.
see examples at our London studio.
photo by antony crolla
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#herbaria #natureinspired
#livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
Giant Leaves by House of Herbaria.
see examples at our London studio.
photo by antony crolla
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#herbaria #natureinspired
#livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
Giant Leaves by House of Herbaria.
see examples at our London studio.
photo by antony crolla
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#herbaria #natureinspired
#livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
a glimpse of gunnera…
photo by antony crolla
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#herbaria #natureinspired
#livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
