WILDFLOWERS

There's something special about wildflowers. I often use the phrase 'if it grows together it goes together' when selecting colours. But the collection of colour found in wildflowers far exceeds any palette I could put together.

So it has been on my mind for a while to create a print from wildflower data. But I hadn't come across the right data until a conversation last July led me to the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

And so I've been working on this print since then.

Seven months later and it's finally here. The print uses detailed data describing the plant coverage across the UK split into 10km squares. So hundreds of thousands of data points.

The result is this corn meadow, which focuses specifically on wildflowers such as poppies, cornflowers and corn marigolds. Each blade of grass has been drawn from data, indicating these 10km squares of land. The distribution of flowers is shown by the flowers themselves ordered by grid reference. 

These flowers only grow within a certain height range but the taller the flower (within their range) the more populous they are within that area.

Details

Limited Edition of 100
A3 (297mm x 420mm) 4 Colour Risograph. Printed in London
175gsm GF Smith Colorplan Paper. Made in Hull
100% Recycled Cardboard Tube. Made in Ayrshire

Postage

UK = £5 | Europe = £10 | ROW = £15
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