"HOUSE OF HERBARIA MAKE GIANT BOTANICAL PICTURES"
About
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 into giant botanical pictures, 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.
“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…”
Contact
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Stockists
(UK)
DIFFERENT LIKE A ZOO
111 Buspace Studios
Conlan Street
London W10 5AP
open by appointment
+44 (0) 20 7625 2705
work in progress…
during the process of making our giant botanical pictures, gunnera leaves from the garden are cut and pressed for six months, before being opened up and rearranged into artworks.
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #wastenothing
work in progress…
during the process of making our giant botanical pictures, gunnera leaves from the garden are cut and pressed for six months, before being opened up and rearranged into artworks.
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #wastenothing
Congratulations to Tessa & her team, who open a second LAYLA bakery today at 53 Churchfield Road, Acton, London W3. They will be open from Wednesday-Sunday 7.30am-3.30pm.
The new store features a triptych of our Giant Leaves pictures which we made this summer, using unique Gunnera leaves which have been pressed over six months. Photos captured beautifully by @simonbrownphotography
See more examples at our London studio, near LAYLA’s other store in Ladbroke Grove, London W10.
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#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#botanicalcommissions #artcollaborations
#decorativeartstudio #designstudio
#wastenothing #wildthings
new work:
Giant Leaf, H131 x W131cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
new work:
Giant Leaf, H122 x W97cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
new work:
Giant Leaf, H131 x W131cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
new work:
Giant Leaves diptych, H122 x W175cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
new work:
Giant Leaf, H131 x W131cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
new work:
Giant Leaves diptych, H122 x W175cm.
see examples at our London studio.
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals
#gunnera #herbaria #natureinspired
#wastenothing #wildthings
buy less, choose well, make it last…
A whole leaf at the wonderful @layla_w10 bakery. This giant botanical picture shows a real Gunnera leaf, pressed over six months, lying on muslin cloth.
📸 @going_down_smiling_
See further examples at our London studio (W10).
#giantbotanicalpictures 🍃
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals #herbaria#natureinspired #livingroomdecor #livingroomdesign #wastenothing #wildthings
many thanks to @_wes_art for his kind help with our new House of Herbaria logo ! 🍃
#logo #illustration #botanicalillustration
#giantbotanicalpictures
#botanicalart #pressedbotanicals #herbaria #natureinspired #wastenothing #wildthings
