From Air To Earth

Some photos from our good friend Annabel Keatley in Andalusia. She was invited as a guest artist at ArtSevilla17 where last week she exhibited this installation made up of ribbons of handmade paper.

I made this piece after walking through a large field of very young eucalyptus trees, all very thin, tall and fragile looking. At the time it reminded me so much of the first experience I had as a child painting on a large scale outside, sitting all alone in a field of silver birch trees.

The paper is made from many different plant fibres, small runs of my handmade papers from such fibres I have cooked up such as fig leaves, esparto grass, banana leaves and cactus, as well as recycled papers. It includes leaves and seeds and techniques of printing and stitching.

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See more work by Annabel Keatley at The Rowley Gallery.