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Overleaf
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The paintings, of both sides of the leaves of 37 trees found across the temperate regions of Europe and North America, are delicate and uncluttered like pressed samples. For each tree there is a concise portrait – how it relates to the environment, how big it grows, how fast it grows, where it grows, the dependent birds, insects and fungi, the mythology, and the uses we make of the timber. Hardback.
176pp. 74 col. plates. 70 line drawings.
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Queen Victoria liked to fuel her bedroom fire with beech, the Scot's Pine feeds three-hundred plant-munching invertebrates and Bird Cherry bark was consumed as a stomach pain soothing jelly in the Middle Ages. Overleaf (Kew Publishing) by Richard and Susan Ogilvy pays homage to the tree in a series of botanical illustrations and fascinating, fact-filled descriptions. Susan Ogilvy's tackles 37 different trees found across Europe and North America in a series of delicate paintings of both sides of a leaf, while forester and gardener Richard Ogilvy writes a concise portrait to accompany each illustration. 'I think that I shall never see / a poem as lovely as a tree', wrote Joyce Kilmer. We couldn't agree more. * Country and Tow House *
Author Biography
Richard Ogilvy is a forester with a dilettante streak having been at various times a barman, market gardener, whole food shop proprietor, disc-jockey, boomerang maker and a youth leader while still pursuing a forestry career. He lives in Scotland where he has had a hand in planting some 150 million trees. Susan Ogilvy's work has been shown in the Ashmolean Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Royal Horticultural Society, and she holds Gold and Silver-Gilt Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society. Susan is married to Richard's brother, a naval pilot, and has been painting since practicing art therapy when an occupational therapist.Related products
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