by Ruby Taylor | Jan 7, 2023 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
A photgraphic essay. Weaving bramble baskets in the woods, I’m joined by photographer Bethany Hobbs. These are her words and images, her story of our day. The humble bramble, the scratcher, the snarer, the snagger of jumpers, the bearer of tongue-staining fruit,...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 16, 2021 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
I talk with the founder of Plants & Colour, Flora Arbuthnott, about how I approach working with wild gathered materials in my creative practice. Intimacy with the landscape, the living world, plants, earth, other creatures, has always been meaningful to me as a...
by Ruby Taylor | Mar 9, 2017 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
‘Plants are integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.’ Robin Wall Kimmerer There’s an arable field margin under two ancient oaks that is species-rich with...
by Ruby Taylor | Jul 25, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Wakehurst: artist in residence
Take Two. I knew with a kind of resigned certainty, even before I reached home as I was driving back from Wakehurst the day it all fell apart, that there was nothing for it but to start all over again. So here I am, out at the barn (my studio for the duration), with...