Below we see Vincent van Gogh “Sunflowers” the image depicts Fifteen sunflowers erupting out of a simple earthenware pot against a blazing yellow background. Some of the flowers are fresh and perky, ringed with halos of flickering, flame-like petals. Others are going to seed and have begun to droop. In part a meditation on the vagaries of time, the picture gives a dynamic, ferociously colourful twist to the long tradition of Dutch flower painting stretching back to the 17th C

Below we see Vincent van Gogh “The starry night” oil-on-canvas the painting is dominated by a moon- and star-filled night sky. It takes up three-quarters of the picture plane and appears turbulent, even agitated, with intensely swirling patterns that seem to roll across its surface like waves. It is pocked with bright orbs—including the crescent moon to the far right, and Venus, the morning star, to the left of centre—surrounded by concentric circles of radiant white and yell

In the image below we see The Scream, by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch we see a boiling sky, aflame with yellow, orange and red, an androgynous figure stands upon a bridge. Wearing a sinuous blue coat, which appears to flow, surreally, into a torrent of aqua, indigo and ultramarine behind him, he holds up two elongated hands on either side of his hairless, skull-like head. His eyes wide with shock, he unleashes a bloodcurdling shriek. Despite distant vestiges of normality

I have come across a very interesting artist who is taking well known paintings and reimagining them to create environmental messages. I was drawn to the artist when researching ways to incorporate art gathered from participating artists and public members as my project expands and the hashtag and Instagram feed becomes public. The way the artist has bought recognisable pieces of art and given them a new sense of purpose but also an up to date relevance in the modern world is

Artist statement. "The bees had secreted honey dried red, lending an almost bloody feel tho the site creating a feel of the bees feeding on human flesh" These pieces invite gawking, Libertíny is not trying to shock. He had been working with beeswax for years before he got the idea to enlist the bees themselves as collaborators — and that insight has landed his pieces in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, among other places. Trained as an industrial designer (he has won

Artist statement- "The link between neonicotinoid pesticides and the worldwide decline of bee populations is a crisis that cannot be ignored. I have arranged thousands of dead honeybees in mathematical patterns symbolically linked to monoculture crops, such as the Fibonacci spiral found in the seed head of the sunflower. The viewer experiences the vertigo of this lifeless swarm, a dizzying optical illusion that echoes the bees’ loss of ability to navigate due to the toxins lo

Interview with Bumblebee I first came across your work with the phone box hives project; how did that come about? How many hives did you put out, and are any of them still up? Interacting and communicating with the public is what I aim to do with my work. After realizing that so many phone kiosks were beeing abandoned around the city, I realized a similar link between technology and nature which bee explained here: “Telephone companies have been abandoning their public te

After looking at the video work by Megan Powell, I have started to think of the application of video within my work. Would layering video of a working bee hive over my image lift the images to a more interactive sensory experience ? Task- Use a video from youtube of bee movement, layer this over an image and see the visual dynamics of the composition. Completed task-

Bee Extracts from a project exploring the individual bee in relation to the hive as a whole. Commissioned by Salt Road Outrider projects inspired by the photography of Alfred Watkins. Shot in residency at Winterbourne House and Gardens 2014

Manchester Museum’s Latest Exhibition Explores the Consequences of a World Without Bees ‘If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.’ Responding to these unsettling words attributed to Albert Einstein, the latest exhibition at Manchester Museum (part of the University of Manchester) After the Bees, presents a series of artworks exploring a poignant narrative of loss. Artist, photographer and filmmaker Megan Powell crea