Woodland Blossoms
Acrylic on Canvas
11 x 14 inches, Unframed
This is Brown Rot Fungus…not a very pretty name but certainly a lovely image in the forest.
Trees and fungi have both captured my imagination. Without them we would not survive on the earth. While trees provide the oxygen we need, fungi along with bacteria break down organic matter and release carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus into the soil and the atmosphere. It’s the importance of fungi and the variety of shapes, colours and their habitat that attract me to them. I’ve been photographing fungi and mushrooms for over 40 years but it’s only in the last couple of years they’ve found their way into my paintings. This is the seventh painting in a new series, All About Fungi.