Tree Series 2016

The Tree Series began in late December 2016.  The work is an on-going series of archival digital prints in a vertical format 1120 x 255 mm.

The images are mostly composite photographs digitally manipulated then printed on Somerset etching paper with an archival inkjet printer.

Most of the source photographs come from the trees in the subtropical garden at Wharepuke, an award winning New Zealand Garden Trust garden of significance, and the immediate surrounds.

As with other series there is the potential to expand this to other places, and other countries.

Trees I-VII                                                                                                                                                                 
Mark Graver digital prints
Tree I – 2016 – 1120 x 255 mm archival inkjet
Tree VI – 2016 – 1120 x 255 mm archival inkjet

 

Trees have been an influence in my work for a long time, usually as  abstracted forms or textures.  They can represent place, time, memorial plantings,  human impact on nature, history, colonisation or simply wonder at the natural world.

Small works from the Garden Series feature forms observed in and around the garden at Wharepuke.

Garden III 2011 etching chine-colle 100 x100 mm

 

Wattle -2016 – inkjet – 100 x 100mm

The Salix Series is directly related to a Salix Caprea, a small weeping willow tree we planted in England for my Dad when he died.

Salix I 2011 acrylic resist etching 600x500mm
Salix II 2011,
acrylic resist etching 600 x 500 mm
Salix III 2011,
acrylic resist etching 600 x 500 mm

and a number of prints from the Umbra Sumus series also relate to trees.

Garston 2014 Photopolymer etching, 200 x 200 mm
Kauri 2014 Photopolymer etching, 200 x 200 mm
Oaks III 2014 Photopolymer etching, 200 x 200 mm