The Oak Year and Oak Leaf Panels
The Oak Year had its first public showing as a floor installation in Perth Museum and Art Gallery. As part of Platform 17, the inaugural festival of Perthshire creativity, it was also translated onto Perth Concert Hall's 22-screen digital display, which is now part of the permanent collection there. A set of four limited edition giclee prints "The Four Seasons", taken from these images is for sale at the concert hall. (£50 each or £150 for a set of four).
Having embarked on Oak Leaf depictions, I cannot seem to stop. I currently produce, now and then, single panels that depict leaves from a single tree. Each panel shows leaves from my chosen tree for the duration of a month. The Birnam Oak panel was shown at Birnam arts and my Birky Bank Oak shown at "Grown Together" exhibition. All of my subjects thus portrayed are trees well known to me, and with which I have a long-term acquaintance.

