SYNTHESIS REPORT

SYNTHESIS REPORT

90 x 90cms

September 2023

Leaves, petals, heat and water – with these simple ingredients I collaborate with nature to create prints which echo the originals, these are called Eco Printing.

These ‘boil-ups’, revealing the true colours and patterns of nature, became important to me at the start of Covid lockdown.

My set of unique Eco Prints follow the rhythms of nature each month during the year 2021 and highlight how nature conforms to its own in-built imperative.

This imperative needs to continue undamaged, as the world approaches irreversible levels of global heating with catastrophic impact on nature’s sacred rhythms..  Placed over this base is a large sgeet of 5mm Acrylic, which has been screen printed with my drawing of the Doomsday book, the hands at 90 seconds to midnight in white – the time left in which drastic action needs to happen in order to save our planet’s ecosystem.  Behind the circle of the clock face I have drawn the geographical outline of the Western world, whose selfish industrialisation has been the main culprits of this disaster.  Representing every month of Lockdown 2021 in Eco Prints, are the thirty six prints represented here in grid format.  (Key to the months are shown here)

The title ‘Synthesis Report’ is from the sixth Assessment report (AR6) which was published by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)                                                      in 2023 as an overview of the state of knowledge on the science of climate change.

Representing every month of Lockdown 2021 in Eco Prints, are the thirty six prints represented here in grid format.  (Key to the months are shown below)

Synthesis Report is an inclusive and informative work and aims to us acknowledge and reconnect with the very organisms that keep us alive.    e final piece, Synthesis Report’ is intended to illustrate, as no words can, the plight of our planet. And will be the culmination of a two-year study.

This piece was selected alongside Benign Indifference II & III for The Society of Designer Craftsmen’s Summer Exhibition called WONDER.