Stump #195 (Ghost), Monoprint, 30cm x 35cm

One-off monoprint — only one available

My neighborhood trees from the Tree Portraits Series expanded to include dead/dying trees in nearby Wanstead Park, & from Dartmouth (where I now Reside), from July onwards; and Monoprints from the latter months of 2020 were further informed by the following literature; ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by Peter Wohlleben, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ by David Wallace-Wells, ‘Gaia’ by James Lovelock, & Merlin Sheldrakes’s amazing ‘Entangled Life’, which expand on the relationship of Trees with Fungi (and other fascinating endosymbiotic relationships, such as Lichens.).

The latter led me to start using a 2nd printed image from the original Monoprint (the ghost print) & then printing over these using hand-cut stencils made of old offcuts of TruGrain (around the original outline of the Stump) with translucent White/Creams with Gloss extender. the ink on this print would then behave/look like the fungal mycelia reaching throughout any given Tree.