New Eyes for Plants - A workbook for observing and drawing plants

Features of the book include: a companion guide to plant development round the seasons; numerous illustrations to accompany the text; exercises for observing and for drawing plants; how science can be practised as an art; an introduction to the holistic approach of Johannes Wolfgang Goethe; and further resources and contacts for workshops are listed.

About the author

Dr. Margaret Colquhoun studied zoology and genetics with agricultural acience at Edinburgh University in the 1960s and worked there as a Research Associate in the 1970s on questions of population genetics and evolutionary biology. Later on, still carrying questions into the reality and relationship of taxonomy and evolution, she spent four years in the Carl Gustav Carus Institute in Öschelbronn in Germany and at the Natural Science Section in Dornach, Switzerland learning to use the Goethean scientific methodology. Since then she has both taught and researched extensively using Goethean science in Britain with a special interest in landscape, medicinal plants and animal evolution. She is also the director of the Pishwanton Project of the Life Science Trust, an Educational Charity working on environmental issues in South East Scotland.

Summary

Fresh ways of seeing nature on a journey through the seasons with observation and drawing exercises.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Colquhoun, Axel Ewald
• Assisted by: Axel Ewald (Illustration)
• Publisher: GB Gardners Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9781869890858
• ISBN: 978-1-869890-85-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Weight: 494 g
• Illustrations: w. numerous ill.
• Series: Art & Science; Workbook for Plant Observation; Art and Science; Art & Science
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works