Tree Colour Studies

I continue my tree colour studies each new moon day of the month.
Here is a leaf on the maple tree in July. The chlorophyll has started to withdraw.

 

Here is the same leaf a month later showing very little change. We must have had a cold night back in July.


The arbutus is back to peeling its bark.

There has been no change in the colour of the Douglas-fir branches so I looked at its rough bark.

I also looked at the cedar's bark.
I am stitching these colours in a band across the tree cloths.

Tree Cloths

The colours on the Arbutus Tree Cloth were showing a shift in colours when I did the July colour studies. 

The Arbutus is an evergreen but it sheds half its leaves over summer.
There is a shift from a yellow green to a low intensity orange.

The Maple is also showing a change - the chlorophyll is beginning to move downward.
There is a shift in colour from green to yellow.
Fall is coming.

New growth on the cedar has turned to a cooler green.

And, as usual, there is not much change in the Douglas-fir needle colour.
I am stitching a July band on each of the tree cloths in the colors I have observed.

Private View

Catherine Dormor wrote the exhibition text panel

Guests attend the private view

Ingrid talks to tutors Kay Swancutt and Beverly Ayling -Smith

Maggie Butts speaks on behalf of the university

Monica thanks the tutors and the university on behalf of the gradautes

Me with my tutor, Catherine Dormor

Ingrid and I take our assistants out for deluxe kiwi burgers in Earl's Court after the private view

Lesley Turner BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

 

 

Judy Martin BA(hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

Caroline Hibbs BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise Jones BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles

My poor quality photography does not show the exquisite embroidery Denise worked on each of the cloths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viki Jenkins BA(Hons) Embroidered Textiles