Inspiring Fungi 

Here are some more amazing finds of fungi that i have stumbled upon over the internet, breathtaking beautiful forms as an artist the shapes inspire me so much, the purity of how the forms are created are most spectacular take a look  . . .  . . . . 

I found this site called Mushroom-appreciation.com its all about how to enrich your life through the appreciation of mushrooms, the website is vary informative and has so much info that is shared and through useful information as well as stories told. Please take a look at the website it is a useful tool and vary interesting   

When I was looking through this website i found this amazing mushroom/fungi it is A close-up of a Berkeley's Polypore, apparently it is quite a large mushroom!

  

I find the shape that it creates just so beautiful like paper or fabric that has been ruffled. 

This is some other beautiful shapes and forms that Fungi have created. . . . 

this one taken from Renee Lebeuf i Stumbled across this on fliker she also shears the love for the beauti of fungi and mushrooms please take take some time to look through her beautiful imagery of finds. talented lady indeed http://www.flickr.com/photos/21189203@N05/

Plant Forms Found in my Garden

So yesterday it was a windy day but i thought to my self i need some natural inspiration so i went for a rummage around my garden to find some natural plant material that inspires me, some of the plants i found were weeds and also some were in the possess of dying for the change of season to summer. I find this change over inspiring and interesting, it represents life and that contentiousness rebirth of nature. here are some of the natural items that i found...... . .

Fantastic Fungi 

Whilst researching Fungi i stumbled across this magnificent piece of film and i felt it  had to be sheared with the world. 

An excerpt from the feature documentary by Louie Schwartzberg following notable mycologist, Paul Stamets, as he discusses the important role mushrooms play in the survival and health of the earth and human species.

All i can say is amazing !!!

Fungi 

I have always been inspired by Fungi and the shapes that different types of fungi can produce, how it grows and the colors that that can become.

I have been looking trough the internet for extreme fungi for inspiration for my sculpture ideas, fungi that look amazing and grow in to amazing shapes color and sizes, this is what i have found from the internet.



This was  found in Norway by this website and photographer Jens H. Petersen, the shapes of these fungi are amazing pods, vessel like, i so inspired by how they form and look, almost as if they had been made by an artist, from clay, ceramic like.  Beautiful Nature

http://www.jenshpetersen.dk/fungi/Fungal%20Shapes/album/slides/TarzettaCupularis.html

Land Art

Andy Goldsworthy 

A British sculpture, photographer and environmental work art work is site-specific for both natural and urban space.

The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying,

 

"I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."

Andy Goldsworthy 

I have always been inspired by Goldsworthys work, and walking around the Dartmoor landscape, being inspired by the natural environment it is the artist Goldsworthy who i always think of and here are some reasons why. 

http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/

The Sublime

"The sublime:- Of such excellence or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe."

To Me Dartmoor is Sublime, full of inspiration of Natural Beauty and life.

Nature 

The Natural World 

Mother Nature to me is the most Important of all that inspires, to reconnect to nature is to reconnect with oneself  our family's or communities and with our living planet.

My World

Our world might be billions of years old and we only a small significant to its exisistance, yet as a world that lives and evolves it really is not too big for human beings to live in without making a conscious adjustments, to be kind to our environment, to understand it, and to find a way to live in harmony with it.