A blog about making art and other things using cloth, paper, paint, colour, stitch, and all sorts of exciting techniques, some of which I'm sure I still have to discover! I hope that the joy all this gives me is visible in what you can see here.

Monday, 19 July 2010

Nature's own patterns!

I recently spent a day at Box Hill in Surrey, and as we went to sit on an old log to rest from the hot sun, we noticed these amazing patterns. Where the bark had fallen off it had exposed what had been going on underneath, surely the work of some beetle or other insect that had been burrowing beneath the bark. I just had to take some photos, because I'm sure I will be using these wonderful patterns created by nature to inspire some of my own stitch art.

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  1. Anonymous19 July 2010 at 23:24

    Nature does so well at creating inspiration for us. Lovely place Box Hill, it was the last place I heard a skylark

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  2. Anonymous20 July 2010 at 14:08

    Nature can be the best inspiration.

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  3. The Quilted Librarian20 July 2010 at 15:42

    Loved you pictures of the bark beetles' work, Cath. I just finished re-reading Jane Austen's Emma and Box Hill is the setting for an important scene in the book.
    Cheers,
    Dana Fisher

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