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birches

Nancy Stedman

The woodland on Farnhill Moor is almost entirely composed of birch trees, which are a pioneer species, that is, the first trees to establish on open ground.  This is only a transition; they will create the conditions for other species such as oak, holly and sycamore to establish and create a more familiar type of woodland.

    The birches, with their thin branches and white bark, create a complex intertwining, with constantly changing views of dark twigs against the light, or white trunks and twigs against the dark.  As Douglas Dunn says in ‘Woodnotes’:

Looking into a wood, the mind gets lost
In complicated sameness, on and on.

Birches


Ink and digital print, 19 x 15 cm

Broken birch


Ink and digital print, 15 x 15 cm

Complicated sameness 1


Linocut, 34 x 42 cm

Complicated sameness 2


Linocut, 25 x 42 cm

Farnhill birches double panel


Woodcut, 60 x 25 cm

Farnhill birches left


Woodcut, 60 x 12 cm

Farnhill birches right


Woodcut, 60 x 12 cm

Nighttime


Conte, 49 x 38 cm