Cheerful

This wallhanging mounted on barnwood reflects the immediate lifting of spirits that a botanical garden gifts to its members. It’s sunny, colorful, full of seasonal and permanent plants – a true sanctuary in every season. Here the tannins in the large sycamore leaves have reacted with the iron mordant, creating the shape and form of the leaves in dot relief. Native ferns, guest eucalyptus and wildflowers flourish in the sun and the shade, captured forever in their beauty prime on silk satin through natural dyes and botanical imprinting using leaves and flowers found in the gardens themselves.