Artists’ Texts

Judith Yarrow

https://judithyarrow.com/

Judith’s painted in Chipping Norton for 35 years. Brought up in a Quaker

village, she painted flowers from the meadow behind her house. Cambridge,

London, farming, 4 children later, she went back to art.

2024 won the Ironstone art-prize.

Work exhibited and in art collections nationally internationally-recently China.

Still walking.

Oak seedlings emerging from the moss of the rainforest floor

Acrylic and oil on birch-ply cradled board

£4,000

This painting is part of a body of work exploring and shining a spotlight on the biodiversity of The Temperate Rainforests of Britain. Judith’s paintings are informed by walking and a sense of environment and place, including an artist’s book of walks and residencies at regenerative farming ‘FarmED’ and Shetland.

Theodore Askew

Prior to disappearing in 2019 Theo was becoming known for his unusual artworks which always incorporated specimens from his extensive collection of natural history specimens. Having travelled much of his life he seemed to be settling in London, but then went to meet a friend for lunch and never returned.

Corruption, 2019

Oak, cloth, glass, paint, 3 peacock butterflies(1 typical and 2 aberrant)

2,000 GBP

This work was one of the last conceived before the artist's disappearance. His sketchbooks at this time are filled with musings about environmental degradation, and the unforeseen effects of decisions people make every day. It was made in the workshop at squinnt.com from detailed instructions left by the artist.

Simon Quinn   

A master picture framer and fine art presentation and contextualisation consultant, Simon is also one half of art, design and theatrical fabrication duo NabarroQuinn. He lives and works in a watermill on the river Test, is restoring a 1921 shepherd’s hut, and thinking h e really ought to learn to fish.

Continuum 1065, 2025

Mixed media on paper, 15x10cm

200 GBP

300 GBP framed

An evolving partwork in mixed media the artist has been making Continuum since 1996, it consists of postcard-sized panels, worked as a long composition. When the part at the left end is finished it is removed and another added at the right. The entire work is currently over 100m long.

Stephan Hausmeister

Stephan Hausmeister is an artist and curator whose interdisciplinary projects cross cultural, geographic, and media boundaries. He initiates international collaborations like Field of Vision and has presented performances at the Documenta. His work spans painting, woodcut, and large-scale digital prints, focusing on cultural dialogue, site-specific practice, and expanded visual authorship. Stephan Hausmeister ist Künstler und Kurator, dessen interdisziplinäre Projekte kulturelle, geografische und mediale Grenzen überschreiten. Er initiiert internationale Kooperationen wie Field of Vision und präsentierte Performances bei der Documenta. Sein Werk umfasst Malerei, Holzschnitt und digitale Großformatdrucke - mit Fokus auf kulturellen Dialog, ortsbezogene Praxis und erweiterte Formen visueller Autorschaft.

Heavy Acorn, 2012

Tempera & Oil on canvas

60 x 85cm

2,880GBP

“Heavy Acorn” is part of Hausmeister’s Icon Overkill series, which presents solitary objects

against neutral backgrounds. The stripped-back visual language questions meaning, context,

and symbolism. Each object may - or may not - carry metaphorical weight, prompting

viewers to reflect deeply on visual representation, interpretation, perception, and possible

narrative layers.

„Heavy Acorn“ ist Teil von Hausmeisters Serie Icon Overkill, die einzelne Objekte vor

neutralem Hintergrund zeigt. Die reduzierte Bildsprache stellt Bedeutung, Kontext und

Symbolgehalt infrage: Jedes Objekt kann metaphorisches Gewicht tragen - oder auch nicht -

und fordert die Betrachtenden heraus, intensiv über visuelle Repräsentation, Interpretation,

Wahrnehmung und Narrativ-Ebenen nachzudenken.

Cristina Starr

Cristina Starr’s art lately investigates our animal aspects as humans, and how these relate to our resilience, and to our power relationships. Born in Washington DC, Cristina has lived mostly in NYC, and is now based in London. She holds degrees in Religious Studies, Social Work and Fine Art (Goldsmiths MFA).

The Lovesick Student

From Nightingale and Rose series (1)

Acrylic, ink, graphite and watercolor on paper.

31x 46cm

1,000 GBP

“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “; but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the. leaves, and wondered. Oscar Wilde

Margarita Zafrilla Olayo

Madrid-born and London-based, creates work bringing together dance, choreography, education, performance, and visual art. Her practice follows the body’s quiet language of care, trust, and relationality. Her paintings deepen this inquiry, engaging figures, gesture, presence, and ritual in a search for dance within all forms of experience.

Where Love Holds Ground #1, 2025 and Where Love Holds Ground #2, 2025

Acrylic ink on mount board paper, artist framed

42 x 29.7cm

Beneath the earth, oak roots entwine,

like arms in trust, a sacred line.

Each thread a bond, both deep and wide,

they hold the ground on every side.

They bend with grace, yet still stay true—

may we remember: our bodies too

can root through love, and hold, and bloom.

Pato Bosich

Pato Bosich is a Chilean-born, London-based artist whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and collaborative projects. His practice explores memory, myth, and transformation through layered imagery and process-driven techniques. Engaging with both the personal and the archetypal, his work evokes a timeless, contemplative space rooted in visual storytelling and poetry.

River Omphalos, 2025

Acrylic and oil on canvas 

22,000 GBP

O mighty river
from the docklands of the Isle of Dogs and Limehouse
we have attended to your liminal pathways
and seen the colour of the dusky suburbs
changed to gold by the blackbird's throat and flute.

O mighty old river
you who keep hidden the prophetic sand-grain of Lambeth.

Oak Tree House, 2025

Acrylic, oil, silver and gold leaf 

5,000 GBP

Hidden roots deep into darkness
Its tentacles seeking to encompass the cinnamon sunset
the forming tree is outreaching itself
Before dissolving into darkness
when tomorrow comes and the sky clears,
the cyclopes studio would have transmuted it all
but right now,
the night has already begun to engulf the city

Moon Oak, 2025

Acrylic, oil and silver leaf 

3,000 GBP

Silver lapis, night’s deep flame,

branching out like roots untamed.

Moonlight bends, a whispered call,

transmuting shadows, rise and fall.

Oak stands steady, strong and wise,

holding secrets under skies.

In their dance, transformation flows—

where earth and light together grow.

Richard Whitehead

Born York,1967, UK, Richard Whitehead is an award-winning Photographer, editor & educator. Published, exhibited and collected nationally & internationally, his portraits and photo series investigate social issues and subjects related to identity, place, liminality and change. Currently he is Senior Lecturer & Programme leader at the University of Northampton (UON). 

‘Pareidolia’ -Oak

a limited edition of 5 archival pigment prints on

Sustainable bamboo paper. These works are for sale framed at £450 or unframed at

£400.

‘Pareidolia’ is the phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects. Displayed here, these subject photographs of oak trees are part of Whiteheads larger ‘Pareidolia Covidya’ Arboretum series. Oak has mythological spirits associated with it, including the Green Man and the feminine Dryad nymph. These images imagine those tree spirits within.

John Patterson

Artist,Photographer,Stone Mason,Travel adventurer and coddiwomple master. Totally  inspired by world travel,going to some of the remotest parts of the world. From Antarctica to the highest road in the world in the Indian Himalayas.Returning back to the amazing Cotswolds to create art.. 

Oxbows

Gold Leaf on 500 year old plank from a ship, then a cottage

495 GBP

Inspired by the mesmerizing oxbows of the White Nile in Tanzania.Infusing the natural flowing forms of the river into this historic medium.The oxbows are rendered with precision and emotion in luminous gold leaf,their sinuous curves shimmering against the deep patina of the ancient oak. A juxtaposition.

Michael Bucknell, MA

Michael Bucknell failed to study theology, studied Art History at Edinburgh, started painting while living in Shakespeare & Cie in Paris, went mad and studied painting at Camberwell. He painted in Russia, Germany, England, Norway, France, and the Gambia. He has long been interested in transubstantiating the material into art.

One and Three Oaks

Edition of 3 & 2 artist’s proofs

50,000 GBP

The first edition of Johnson's dictionary codified spelling and meaning in a beautiful way, but is very rarely seen. Oak is wood and tree, poetry and symbol of England. Representation, codification, reproduction, duplication- signifier, signified, art, craft, nature. Beauty of life and death, common meaning changed by direct artistic experience.

A Moscow Conceptualist Oak Tree

Edition of 3 & 2 artist’s proofs

50,000 GBP

Art is life is change is perception, attention, meaning, transformation, transubstantiation of the mundane into the etherial. Yerofeyev shared shoe polish cocktails as political protest, rejecting the oppressive and hypocritical system dictating form and meaning in blood and banners. Craig-Martin redefined art as a consequence of belief and direct action.

Scott Schwager

Scott Schwager makes walks and paints.  Scott knows these Walk&Talk walks, as their relatives of the other walks. They’re all ephemeral artworks. They have conversations and some unusual encounters. Scott’s sometimes inspired by walkers, memories and encounters in his paintings. They sometimes include artists, acquaintances, friends, news, trees, and songs.

Artist’s Walk

In ‘Walk&Talk methods and a path to plant trees’ Scott will introduce walking and talking methods and modes of collaborating as a path to plant trees. Walkers will encounter majestic oaks, others and talk about how, and when, any of us interested, can plant oaks.  Join us on Sunday’s walk!

Evgeniy Kazannik
Lumen Print on Ilford Multigrade Black and White paper,
Oak Leaves, rain water
Berlin, 2025


Evgeniy Kazannik is a visual artist working with analogue photographic processes and synthesized sound. A former commercial photographer, he studied at London College of Communication. His camera-less analogue work explores time, perception, and light. Kazannik has exhibited internationally, and his work is held in both private and institutional art collections.

James Newcombe, 2025

Before the Light Could Scorn, 2025

Drawing water colour

350 GBP

In the slow alchemy of light and time, sun draw its own memory. What
remains is not a representation, but a trace—fleeting and luminous. A
whisper of chlorophyll, a ghost, suspended in a soft pink hush. The
oak, unrooted yet alive, becomes a gesture—an impression caught
between presence and disappearance.

Guidance of owl in the quiet time, where the caterpillar

bites through the leaf in secret,

where the worms eavesdrop for my footfall 

and the mole burrows blindly underground. 

I am faithful to the flower’s whorl of petals,

to the rinsing lisp of flowing water,

faithful to the cold blossom of the stars,

and to whatever invited me here

I am faithful.

Star and river, tree and flower –

there is a riddle here I cannot solve;

here, where the luminous newt offers

no response; here, where I search for an answer

lost in the world of a glistening leaf.

And just when my ruminations reach their pitch,

just as the jigsaw begins to make sense,

then creeps in, like an uninvited guest,

the cold, inexplicable colours of day.

Stella Carr

Stella Carr is a painter inspired by the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world. Her paintings focus on trees as a locus of pattern and energy, honouring deep ecology. Carr’s work dramatises the mutual vulnerability of artist and environment, in image and process, often involving a somatic response.

Quercus

Walnut ink and natural pigment on paper, framed

95 GBP

Trees are mirrors of my inner world, the boughs a ladder I am constantly climbing up and down

on in an attempt to find understanding. This genus, Quercus represents strength, longevity, and

endurance. The acorn symbolises potential, growth and prosperity, together, they embody the

cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

Matt Hale

Hale’s studio is in a wood in West London. For over 40 years Hale has exhibited worldwide and Studied at Chelsea School and Goldsmiths. He is also a consultant to Art Monthly magazine co hosting the Art Monthly Talk Show podcast. Hale also co ran City Racing gallery in the ‘90’s.

(1) Damaged Nature series- Oak 1 Matt Hale, 2025

English Oak tree branch with multiple circular saw cuts, acrylic sheet, copolymer emulsion, pigment, English Oak leaves.

20cm H X 90cm long

2,000 GBP

(2) Micro Leaves 1, 2010

Acrylic sheets (clear), spray paint, English Oak leaves, engine grease,

Size: 32cm H x 80cm W

2,000 GBP

(1) WorkDamaged Nature work Oak 1 was made with Gustav Metzger's writings in mind - on the difference between Nature and Environment in his essay ‘nature demised resurrects as environment’. The work is Nature under duress- a contemporary blasted Oak but blasted by man rather than lightening as in the original meaning.

(2) Micro Leaves 1, 2010 is like a microscope sample slide but enlarged. It contains Nature in the form of Oak leaves suspended in engine grease and cellulose spray paint. The shape of central circle is created using a motorcycle sprocket. The work mixes Nature and the combustion engine.