Some 80 special edition prints from The New Sylva are to be auctioned to raise money for charity. The Sylva Foundation – the charity that supported the production of the book by appointing Sarah Simblet as its artist-in-residence – will be auctioning the prints via an online auction site. The fine art Giclée prints will be selected… Read More
New Sylva exhibition film
Sarah Simblet talks about her part in creating The New Sylva in a film sponsored by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) to celebrate the opening, today, of the Sylva Exhibition. Read more about the exhibition at RBGE
Sarah Simblet master class in drawing
Sarah Simblet recently talked about the making of The New Sylva and gave a Master Class in drawing at Cal Lutheran University in California. One of the attendees has written an interesting blog post about the class. Read more on the Art by Vreeke blog
Authors to speak at Oxford event – 30th November
Authors Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet will both be speaking about The New Sylva at an event to be held in Oxford on 30th November. The one day course, hosted the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, is being co-organised by forestry charity The Sylva Foundation. The day course is open for… Read More
Norway spruce drawings in progress (2)
The latest photograph of Sarah Simblet’s drawing in progress of Norway spruce collected from Westonbirt Arboretum – read the full story.
Norway spruce drawings in progress
Sarah Simblet has started work on drawing three plates featuring Norway spruce. The photograph shows work in progress, first in pencil, and the start to working in detail with pen and ink. Read More
Macedonian pine seedling and cone
Drawing of a small-leaved lime
Photograph (low quality) of a completed drawing by Sarah Simblet for The New Sylva: Small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata)
Pollarded willows at Wootton
Photograph (low quality) of a completed drawing by Sarah Simblet for The New Sylva: Pollarded willows at Wootton
Field oak with rooks
Photograph (low quality) of a completed drawing by Sarah Simblet for The New Sylva: Field Oak (Quercus robur) and rooks.
Time lapse film of a drawing in the making for The New Sylva
Time lapse film of artist Sarah Simblet working on a drawing for The New Sylva book. Made from 600 photographs taken over the course of 6 hours. The drawing is of a stand of sugi or Japanese red cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) growing in Brechfa Forest Gardens, Wales. Read More
Visit to a forest of the future
There remain many botanical parts of trees to be drawn and a few whole trees to be depicted by Sarah Simblet, yet a forest visited this week by the authors will be one of the last whole treescapes to feature in The New Sylva. The authors visited Brechfa Forest Gardens near Abergorlech in Carmarthenshire. During… Read More
