VINEYARDS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE
JUL - SEP 2024
A research-based project exploring the botanical ecosystems surrounding vineyards in southern France. Through field observation and plant collection, the work examines the relationship between cultivated agricultural landscapes and the spontaneous vegetation inhabiting their margins.
Focusing on soil composition and native plant species near the Lot River, the project traces how terrain, mineral conditions, and ecological systems shape both cultivated and wild botanical environments.
This body of work acts as a conceptual and material precursor to an ongoing project developed in Bordeaux (2026).
Foliage: Cahors, Southern France.
Technique: Botanical dyeing on cotton paper.
Paper boiled by immersion.
Selene, Helios & Eos
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39cm x 57cm
Mixed media - Botanical dyeing on French cotton paper from 1979. Dyed with grapevine leaves from vineyards of Cahors-south of France, oak seeds, walnut leaves and wisteria leaves.
Green to blue
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39cm x 57cm
Mixed media - Botanical dyeing on French cotton paper from 1979. Dyed with grapevine leaves from vineyards of Cahors-south of France, oak seeds, walnut leaves and wisteria leaves.
Beneath the earth
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62cm x 96cm
Mixed media - Botanical dyeing on French cotton paper from 1979. Dyed with grapevine leaves from vineyards of Cahors-south of France, oak seeds, walnut leaves and wisteria leaves.
A Thousand Years - diptych
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75cm x 112cm
Mixed media - Botanical dyeing on French cotton paper from 1979. Dyed with walnuts, elderberries, grapevine leaves and eucalyptus. Overlays of colors and leaf prints in 9 immersion boiling sessions.
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The Silent Force - Triptych
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75cm x 172cm
Mixed media - Botanical dyeing on French cotton paper from 1979. Overlays of colors and leaf prints in 5 immersion boiling sessions.