Towards the end of last week, The Guardian published this gorgeous series of pictures by Barbados artist Annalee Davis, who is currently participating in the re:rural exhibition at Haarlem Artspace, in Derbyshire, UK.
Since Derbyshire is shockingly expensive and difficult for me to get to at the best of times, let alone in a pandemic, it’s really nice to have this. Because it’s beautiful, as well as being about, well, West Indian plants.
I spent a happy evening browsing through Annalee Davis’ website. From her ‘About’ page, I wouldn’t have realised how much of her work has to do with plants. Certainly, not all of it does, but there are two main strands, or at least recent ones, to this aspect of her work: the various ‘Bush Tea’ projects, and those which use plantation ledger paper as a basis for drawings, as above. I like her writing too. Highly recommended.