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Why being in green spaces make us feel calmer
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco Being in green spaces helps us to feel calmer and less anxious which is good for our mental health and sense of wellbeing. According to an NHS report, people...
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Issues of lightfastness with botanical inks – an experiment
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco Plants are reliant on sunlight for their existence. The sun determines their life cycle. Sunlight informs a plant to germinate, when to grow and ultimately,...
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Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco Inventory of inks (Feb – Dec) To date, I have foraged, harvested and made 34 botanical inks throughout the season. This number has quite surprised me! Each ink...
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The Living Colour – Green
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco The ancient green pigment, chlorophyll is nature’s symbol of life. It has been in existence, here on earth for three billion years and is responsible for...
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Our visual and non visual pathways -Rods and cones
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco The drawing above show just how complex the wiring is in our retina leading off to the optic nerve. As I’ve been familiarising myself into how we see and...
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Responsible Foraging – 1 in 20 rule.
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco During this art-science project of making a natural botanical palette of my own using wild plants, I learned how to be a responsible forager as recommended by...
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Fine art applications using natural inks – Seasonal Tonality and garlands
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco One of my aims of this project was to explore potential fine art applications of using the botanical inks. It seems that many artists and artisans use their...
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Oxytocin – the human molecule
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco The more I research into the positive feelings of wellbeing when we are bathed in green spaces, the more I read about oxytocin, our human magic hormone… and...
View ArticlePlants in Bloom: A reading list mapping the geographies of kinship in...
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco Plants in Bloom: A reading list mapping the geographies of kinship in researching, making and understanding Plants as Ink, their unique patterns and blooms. . ....
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52 playing cards in 52 weeks
Informed Fine Art - By Susan Lily Brisco 52 Playing cards in 52 weeks – artist statement Susan Brisco It’s always a delight to watch the ever-changing forms of nature quietly appearing and slowly...
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