Frances Jill Studd: July 2016

Thursday, 7 July 2016

Here is a painting from a new exhibition which I be opening in a few weeks.

The Exhibition is called 'Get Back to the Garden' from Joni Mitchell's Woodstock

song. I hope to show the importance of small urban gardens in providing food for

bees, butterflies and birds now that so many of their natural feeding grounds have been

lost to food production and building development. This is called 'Sunflowers'.

I grew these small lemon coloured ones this year they were some of the most

showy and successful.

All images copyright Frances Jill Studd 2016

I took these photographs of a family of black swans on a small lake near where we live.

It is now mid Winter and four cygnets have hatched and survived. I believe that

they have been helped in this by the locals who are feeding them, as soon as they

saw me they came gliding over.

One of the parents was keeping a careful watch.