Naturebook is an online gallery of nature artwork; a celebration of humanity’s passion for and fascination with nature. Artistic expression of the living world is a vitally human activity. From 30,000 year old San cave paintings in Zimbabwe, to the flowers of Van Gogh or Marc Chagall or the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats or Mary Oliver, nature makes us feel and urges us to create.
So we set up Naturebook to showcase this feeling.
“If you want to feel happy – look at Naturebook!”
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- Children at Art in Action creating a Naturebook collage with Siren and Nature in Art staff, July 2011
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- 14-16,000 year old painting by unknown cave artists from Altamira caves, Santander, Spain.
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- Iberian lynx picture
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- Tiger spotted in Oxfordshire woodland
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- Autumn leaves, Toddler painting at Oxford Outdoor Learning Festival, 2011
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- Green Man, collage by children from Camp Energy Holiday club, Oxford, 2011
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- Butterfly detail from Art in Action
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- Thank you picture created by children from Aldermaston Primary School, who visited Wasing Park, for ourdoor learning day run by Siren, 2006.
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- Collage in preparation:
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- Young artists at Hinksey Heights Nature Park, Oxford Open Doors 2012
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- Painting lemurs at a Madagascar event for 4 and 5 year olds at Cotswold Wildlife Park
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- Final collage from Art in Action, Waterperry Gardens, July 2012, created with the help of 1000′s of contributors.
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- Naturebook collage of Wittenham Clumps, created by Nancy for Siren with visitors at the Earth Trust Autumn Festival
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- Wildflowers painted by visitors to Sasha’s Wildflower Experience stall at a Garden Festival in Herefordshire, 2010
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- Buzzard painted at Oxford Outdoor Learning Festival
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- Ela’s Naturebook: Leaf fishes
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- Photography is also welcome
Naturebook is a celebration of biophilia – snippets of poetry, sketches, oils, watercolours, pencil lines, inspired by natural living things, animals, plants, fungi, or microscopic bugs, ugliness, beauty, fascination, or disgust, cartoons, realism, expressionism, magic, expressions of love, hopelessness, joy, anything at all, as long as its inspired by something that’s alive.
Dreaming Spires collage made with children visiting Hinksey Heights Nature Park for Oxford Open Doors event
The site is open to everyone and harnesses the excitement and creative impulse nature brings, without judging the work. On Naturebook, you will find, side by side, the scribbling of a small child with a pencil and a pet slug, with work by professional artists, writers and sculptors. Added together, the work of these people, united by their love of wilderness, will make a resounding shout to conserve the natural world. We urge you to explore the site and to make a Naturebook of your own.
Invite us to make a Naturebook artwork with your school or community group. Contact info@siren.org.uk