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This beautiful book is a celebration of the mighty oak, through the
passion and vision of artist Mark Frith. Mark has drawn large scale
portraits of 22 of Britain's oldest living oaks, with exceptional
detail conveyed in these intricate graphite works, bringing the
ancient features of these majestic individuals to life on the page.
Growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside, Mark enjoyed a
childhood experiencing the natural world and in particular
developed a huge closeness to a local ancient character - the Great
Oak at Nibley Green. Mark would return to this tree in 2010 as the
first of his series of oak drawings, commissioned by the publisher,
poet, philanthropist and planter of trees Felix Dennis. These
large-scale drawings measuring 1.7 m wide took Mark three and a
half years to complete and were finished just before Felix Dennis's
death in 2014. Following Felix Dennis's wishes, his estate
bequeathed 10 of the drawings to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
This stunning book is the ideal gift for art and tree lovers alike,
and a fitting dedication to these ancient individuals. I hope that
in some modest way these drawings express man's profound
relationship with the natural world, and, if it has one, something
of the soul of the ancient oak tree. Mark Frith
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