"BLUE" Monday Morning Print Collective- Maitreya Social, St.Marks Rd, Easton, Bristol
"Sea Life" Cafe Connect CIC, HQ of Bristol Reconnect , St. Marks Rd, Easton, Bristol
A collection of underwater photographs, mono-prints and screen prints on the theme of "Sea Life".
The art work is to celebrate life in the sea and bring awareness to the need to protect it.
Profits from sales of art work will be donated to Wildscreen, Reef-World Foundation, and Bristol Reconnect.
"The Monday Morning Print Collective" Alma Theatre, Clifton, Bristol
Bristol Creatives Collection
Hamilton House, Bristol
Hamilton House, Bristol
“I Sea 4 Degrees” Aquatic Art Exhibition
I have been fortunate enough to have had many underwater adventures and come up close and personal with many of the weird and wonderful life forms that live in the sea.
Most of which dwell in the coral reefs in the Coral Triangle. The Coral Triangle is a marine area located in the western Pacific Ocean. It includes the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Solomon Islands. Named for its staggering number of corals (nearly 600 different species of reef-building corals alone), the region nurtures six of the world’s seven marine turtle species and more than 2000 species of reef fish.
Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with perhaps one quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter. This is a remarkable statistic when you consider that reefs cover just a tiny fraction (less than one percent) of the earth’s surface and less than two percent of the ocean bottom. Because they are so diverse, coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the sea.
Coral reefs are also very important to people. The value of coral reefs has been estimated at 30 billion U.S. dollars and perhaps as much as 172 billion U.S. dollars each year, providing food, protection of shorelines, jobs based on tourism, and even medicines.
Unfortunately, people also pose the greatest threat to coral reefs. Overfishing and destructive fishing, pollution, warming, changing ocean chemistry, and invasive species are all taking a huge toll. In some places, reefs have been entirely destroyed, and in many places reefs today are a pale shadow of what they once were.
What the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius?, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting will happen by the end of the century if no significant policy changes are undertaken.
It is a stark reminder that climate change affects everything. The solutions lie in effective risk management and ensuring all our work, all our thinking, is designed with the threat of a world in which warming reaches 4°C above preindustrial levels in mind.
Among the foreseen consequences are:
The scientific evidence, is unequivocal about the fact that humans are the cause of global warming, and that major changes are already being observed: global mean temperature is now 0.8°C above pre industrial levels; oceans have warmed by 0.09°C since the 1950s and are acidifying. Sea levels rose by about 20 cm since pre-industrial times and are now rising at 3.2 cm per decade; an exceptional number of extreme heat waves occurred in the last decade; major food crop growing areas are increasingly affected by drought.
On my underwater adventures I have seen first hand the effect of global warming in the sea on Coral Reefs. It is very sad to see.
As a result I am developing series of prints in sets of 4 to represent the 4 degrees. As you may have noticed I have a healthy obsession with Octopus. You couldn’t dream up a more mesmerising creature, sci-fi in the sea, Octopi never ceases to surprise and inspire. Dated back to 300 million years ago the Octopus is the most intelligent of all the invertebrates, they have 3 hearts, blue blood and can change colour and shape at will, squirt ink, vanish through tiny cracks and taste with their suckers. Their ability to change is the most inspiring of all. Something we humans will need to do if we want to keep our planet alive.
Easiest way to change our way to save the world is to reduce our meat consumption, especially beef, for example meatfree mondays, www.meatfreemondays.com. Or if we really want to save the planet... stop eating meat altogether, Vegans are the eco-hero's of the planet.
A person who follows a vegan diet produces the equivalent of 50% less carbon dioxide, uses 1/11th oil, 1/13th water, and 1/18th land compared to a meat-lover for their food.Each day, a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq ft of forested land, 20 lbs CO2 equivalent, and one animal’s life.www.cowspiracy.com/facts
www.beforetheflood.com
Profits from sales of art work will be donated to Reef-World Foundation, www.reef-world.org, and Wildscreen, www.wildscreen.org
I have been fortunate enough to have had many underwater adventures and come up close and personal with many of the weird and wonderful life forms that live in the sea.
Most of which dwell in the coral reefs in the Coral Triangle. The Coral Triangle is a marine area located in the western Pacific Ocean. It includes the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Solomon Islands. Named for its staggering number of corals (nearly 600 different species of reef-building corals alone), the region nurtures six of the world’s seven marine turtle species and more than 2000 species of reef fish.
Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with perhaps one quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter. This is a remarkable statistic when you consider that reefs cover just a tiny fraction (less than one percent) of the earth’s surface and less than two percent of the ocean bottom. Because they are so diverse, coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the sea.
Coral reefs are also very important to people. The value of coral reefs has been estimated at 30 billion U.S. dollars and perhaps as much as 172 billion U.S. dollars each year, providing food, protection of shorelines, jobs based on tourism, and even medicines.
Unfortunately, people also pose the greatest threat to coral reefs. Overfishing and destructive fishing, pollution, warming, changing ocean chemistry, and invasive species are all taking a huge toll. In some places, reefs have been entirely destroyed, and in many places reefs today are a pale shadow of what they once were.
What the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius?, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting will happen by the end of the century if no significant policy changes are undertaken.
It is a stark reminder that climate change affects everything. The solutions lie in effective risk management and ensuring all our work, all our thinking, is designed with the threat of a world in which warming reaches 4°C above preindustrial levels in mind.
Among the foreseen consequences are:
- the inundation of coastal cities;
- increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer and wet regions wetter;
- unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics;
- substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions;
- increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones;
- irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.
The scientific evidence, is unequivocal about the fact that humans are the cause of global warming, and that major changes are already being observed: global mean temperature is now 0.8°C above pre industrial levels; oceans have warmed by 0.09°C since the 1950s and are acidifying. Sea levels rose by about 20 cm since pre-industrial times and are now rising at 3.2 cm per decade; an exceptional number of extreme heat waves occurred in the last decade; major food crop growing areas are increasingly affected by drought.
On my underwater adventures I have seen first hand the effect of global warming in the sea on Coral Reefs. It is very sad to see.
As a result I am developing series of prints in sets of 4 to represent the 4 degrees. As you may have noticed I have a healthy obsession with Octopus. You couldn’t dream up a more mesmerising creature, sci-fi in the sea, Octopi never ceases to surprise and inspire. Dated back to 300 million years ago the Octopus is the most intelligent of all the invertebrates, they have 3 hearts, blue blood and can change colour and shape at will, squirt ink, vanish through tiny cracks and taste with their suckers. Their ability to change is the most inspiring of all. Something we humans will need to do if we want to keep our planet alive.
Easiest way to change our way to save the world is to reduce our meat consumption, especially beef, for example meatfree mondays, www.meatfreemondays.com. Or if we really want to save the planet... stop eating meat altogether, Vegans are the eco-hero's of the planet.
A person who follows a vegan diet produces the equivalent of 50% less carbon dioxide, uses 1/11th oil, 1/13th water, and 1/18th land compared to a meat-lover for their food.Each day, a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq ft of forested land, 20 lbs CO2 equivalent, and one animal’s life.www.cowspiracy.com/facts
www.beforetheflood.com
Profits from sales of art work will be donated to Reef-World Foundation, www.reef-world.org, and Wildscreen, www.wildscreen.org
|
|
Aquatic Art Exhibition July 2016
Group exhibition from Spike Print Studio at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol.
A collection of screen prints inspired by life in the sea.
A collection of screen prints inspired by life in the sea.
|
See yourself in the Sea- Screen printed mirrors |
Mr. Argonaut screenprint
|
Jelly galaxy psychedelic screen print
|
Jelly map screen print
|
Aquatic Art;
Hamilton House Bristol 2017/18
Frome Market 2016/17
Harbourside Market 2016/17
Tobacco Factory 2016/17
All Hallows Festival June 2016
Easton Arts Trail 2015
Greenbank 2015
|
|
|
|
Easton meets the Philippine Seas Exhibition at Maitreya Social 2015
