Nature's Solace - Fine Art Print (Low Stock)

In March of 2020, we were forced into isolation and cut off from everyone. There were stinging nettles coming up, and the white fawn lilies were blooming, but the streets were so silent. This painful silence here is depicted by the stinging nettle overhanging the dead song sparrow, which is in turn crushing one of the flowers (and raindrops on them all). The slug’s trail across the lily’s leaf indicates it had been there for some time, and further the slug is protecting itself, turning away from the sharp talons of the dead bird. We were all facing such discomfort, with no idea what was going to happen…

Nature provided such a solace for me in my grief, at the time. I got out for into nature with my dog every day, walking through the woods of PKOLS (Mount Douglas, in Victoria). The fawn lilies were symbolic of hope and regrowth, even in the midst of such quiet chaos.

I created this digital piece using the Procreate App on my iPad; I had so many tough feelings and art was somewhere to put them, something to do with them. I submitted it to a the Recollections Exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, where it hung from October 2020 through the pandemic until February of 2022, alongside art from other past & present employees and volunteers of the museum. (I did my internship there in 2015.)

This is an open edition print; if I run out of stock I can preorder more. The image will fit an 8”x 10” mat opening. The archival print will be shipped unframed in a plastic sleeve with an acid-free cardstock backing.