The Glorious Trees of Great Britain

Piers Browne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2002
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7195-6035-4 (ISBN)

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For over a decade and inspired by the onslaught of Dutch Elm disease, the artist Piers Browne has been recording the trees of Great Britain in etchings and drypoint. This book is a celebration of the tree through the eyes of an artist who has had a close affinity with nature all his life.

For over a decade, the artist Piers Browne has been recording the trees of Great Britain in etchings and drypoint. His inspiration was the onslaught of Dutch Elm disease, which decimated one of Britain's greatest native trees and changed the landscape dramatically.;Piers had followed his own idiosyncratic eye. This volume includes trees of all kinds: the oldest, the tallest, the most unusual, the joyous, the eye-catching and the historical as well as the finest of many species. He includes Killarney's extraordinary evergreen Strawberry Tree, Drumlanrig's vast Sycamore, one of the largest in Europe, a towering but incongruous Eucalyptus, and a Hickory standing alone on the Giant's Causeway. In the heart of England he captures among others the skyscraper Noble Fir and a little-known Oak with one of the largest trunks in the world. Hills and mountains are inspiring backdrops to many of the trees illustrated here and many have historical associations with such as Walter Scott, Coleridge, Milton and Hogarth. This book is a celebration of the tree through the eyes of an artist who has had a close affinity with nature all his life.Eact section is introduced by David Bellamy, and each tree is accompanied by prose selected by Piers Browne, or by a poem specially commissioned by him for his book.

Piers Browne followed a classical path through the Byam Shaw and Royal Academy Schools, travelled widely in Europe, Africa - sometimes on foot - Iceland, Poland, Java and so on yet always found his abiding theme of beauty of the natural world seen in lovely ligt. Although he paints some very large oils, it is in coloured etchings and montone dyrpoints that the intensity of his expression, as reproduced from original prints in this book, is best shown.

Oaks; the ash; the beech; the elm; the lime; the chestnuts; the thorn; fruit trees; rowan, whitebean and service tree; maples and sycamore; the London plane; silver birch; poplars and alders; willows; the hazel; the holly; the hornbeam; pines and firs; cedars; the yew; box; exotica; woods.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.10.2002
Einführung	David Bellamy
Illustrationen	Piers Browne
Vorwort	Prince of Wales Charles
Zusatzinfo	160 colour illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	244 x 22 mm
Gewicht	1591 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Bildbände ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
ISBN-10	0-7195-6035-7 / 0719560357
ISBN-13	978-0-7195-6035-4 / 9780719560354
Zustand	Neuware