by Susan Brisco | Mar 5, 2024 | Art Science, Science |
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 botanical inks for dyeing fabrics and not many artists take botanical inks into a fine art application. My...
by Susan Brisco | Mar 5, 2024 | Art Science, Science |
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 The Woodland Trust and BSBI Code of Conduct as proposed by the National History Museum. I became a more...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 20, 2024 | Art Film, Art Science, Drawing, Science |
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 brings back a memory of a walk, a place, an experience and a story. For example, one day, a walk in Wales...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 18, 2024 | Art Science, Drawing, Science |
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, when to die off ready for its dormant period in the winter. When the spring arrives, warmer sunlight...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 3, 2024 | Art Science, Drawing, Science |
How we React to colour and its Impact on our Central Nervous System. Rods and cones are photoreceptors found in abundance in the retina. The Rods are sensitive to the intensity of light whereas the cones are wonderful in that they give us our colour vision. Life ...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 3, 2024 | All Articles, Art Science, Drawing, Science |
Making & Understanding the Colour of Plants and their Impact focusses on my journey making and using botanical inks from plants which touches on the fields of neuroscience and chemistry through an artistic perspective using film, drawing and sound. I was honoured...
