This is a real tree. It’s an ancient yew tree (somewhere between 1,500 and 4,000 years old) in the village churchyard of Crowhurst, Surrey. The tree, even by the most conservative estimate of its age, is older than records of the church or of the…
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Yew trees are quite odd trees. They evolved earlier than most of the other familiar British trees – oaks or beeches, say – which suggests that their oddities may be ancient traits that other, more modern trees, didn’t need: aerial roots, branches that take root,…
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I’m very pleased to say that I will be at the Surrey Contemporary Art Fair in Esher next month. I will be on stand 84, which I am sharing with Kristin Rawcliffe, a fabulous artist whose recent solo exhibition in London featured dynamic portraits of…
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