Kurt Jackson
Kurt Jackson Book Bundle: Oak and Biodiversity
Kurt Jackson Book Bundle: Oak and Biodiversity
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This limited-time offer pulls together Jackson's Oak and Biodiversity books into a single money-saving bundle.
This bundle offers a saving of £5 compared to purchasing these books separately.
This offer only runs over the Christmas period and will end on January 1st 2025.
About Kurt Jackson: Oak:
For renowned British contemporary artist Kurt Jackson, the oak embodies beautiful fragility as much as gnarled, immovable permanence.
Each tree has a fascinating individual identity whilst part of an immense interconnected woodland world. The oak is a reservoir of great biodiversity, the tree itself an enormous life support system.
Jackson has spent a lifetime in studied observation to present the oak through his own techniques and gestures – relishing in the challenges of scale and form.
Oaks, perhaps more than other trees, have great artistic appeal.
His paintings capture what is essential in detail and leave other elements merely indicated - realism and impressionism in perfect balance.
Having ‘tramped’ oak woods a lot, these paintings, more than photographs, at once take me back there.
- Aljos Farjon – Botanist
Item Details
- Softcover: 140 pages
- Over 100 colour and black and white illustrations
- Foreword by Aljos Farjon
- Prose and poetry by Kurt Jackson
- ISBN: 978-1-0686620-0-3
- 26.5 x 22.5cm
- Signed*
About Kurt Jackson: Biodiversity:
Our existence depends on biodiversity; the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink ultimately all requires it.
This book, published to accompany Kurt Jackson's touring exhibition Biodiversity, features a range of contributors including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gillian Burke, Richard Mabey, George Monbiot and Mark Cocker.
As we should all be realising, our world is suffering a catastrophic environmental crisis, the likes of which we have never previously witnessed. All life forms have the same entitlement to live as we do and fundamentally they are all individually fascinating, extraordinary and beautiful organisms in their own right.
By being aware of the life we share this planet with we can appreciate it and then hopefully conserve it.
Jackson's Biodiversity exhibition (and this book which accompanies it) illustrates this point through a variety of works made in locations around the UK.
Some locations had a huge range of life forms, some were barren, some dominated by nature, and some by human life. The bird life might be visible, apparent but the various mosses or lichen are often less obvious. Insects can be subtly hidden but the trees are visible.
Under the waters, on a mountain, in a street, in your living room, what lives there?
This book features contributions from experts in their fields from television, radio, sustainability and academia.
- Softcover: 136 pages
- 120 colour and black and white illustrations
- Contributions by: Jon Benington, Dan Matthews, Paul Smith, Patrick Barkham, Gillian Burke, Mark Cocker, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Charles Godfray, John Krebs, Richard Mabey, George Monbiot, Juliet Osborne, John Sauven, Tim Smit, Adrian Spalding, Chris Watson
- Introduction, prose and poetry by Kurt Jackson.
- ISBN: 9781999582999
- 26.5 x 22.5cm
- Signed*
* Unless otherwise requested, this item will be signed by Kurt Jackson.
** If you would like to add a dedication with this item, please enter your chosen message by clicking on the "Leave a note for the seller" link on the Shopping Cart page. Please note this will not be dedicated by Kurt Jackson, but a member of staff and not directly in the book.
