Natural artists

Sometimes the internet brings you art projects that amaze you. This morning, when I landed on the homepage of a UK artist named Tim Knowles I was simply astonished.



I stumbled upon one of his art projects named Tree Drawings. Which aren't drawings of trees but by trees.

Knowles simply attatched a few pens to the branches of the trees, put a piece of canvas under it and let the natural factors (wind and gravity, in this case) do their work.

The result is a very minimalistic piece of art (on the right there's what a Larch produced on a piece of canvas. With Larch being a common type of tree).



It's not rare that an artist uses nature as his inspiration. But to me it was sort of new that an artist uses nature to do his work, which isn't anything bad of course.



My personal favourite is called Circular Weeping Willow. Knowles must have spend an afternoon attatching the 100 pens he used for this one to the Weeping Willow that created this masterpiece. And I wonder where he got the circular disc, measuring 5,1 metres in diameter, that he used as a canvas.



Nevertheless Tim Knowles has managed to merge nature and art seamlessly in one project, and that's admirable. And the best part is that everyone can create Tree Drawings. Just pick an inspirational tree out of your garden and attatch some pens to it's branches.



-jdh