Nature & Art

Six photographic still lives: vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in the ruins of Tide Mills and the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, 12.08.24

Sim Elliott

Aug 14
5 min

Six photographic still lives: vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in the ruins of Tide Mills and the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, 12.08.24

This post focusses on assemblages ("still lives") of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen, shingle, brick, mortar and concrete at Tide...

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Rainy & dark RSPB Rainham Marshes: Marsh Harriers & Snipe and bird art

Sim Elliott

Jan 9, 2022
3 min

Rainy & dark RSPB Rainham Marshes: Marsh Harriers & Snipe and bird art

A selection of photos from my trip to RSPB Rainham Marshes yesterday, where it rained continuously and was very dark. I got there for...

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A bird-focused walk from Craven Woods to Beacon Hill: historical & cultural resonances.

Sim Elliott

Feb 22, 2021
23 min

A bird-focused walk from Craven Woods to Beacon Hill: historical & cultural resonances.

Friday 19.02.21. Like, I suspect, many people, after a year of covid-19, I often feel flat. Whilst the vaccination programme offers hope,...

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Skylarks: photos & birdsong; poetry & music. Nature and art in troubling times.

Sim Elliott

Feb 21, 2021
11 min

Skylarks: photos & birdsong; poetry & music. Nature and art in troubling times.

Click here to hear a field recording of singing Skylarks recorded on 20.02.21 in Ovingdean. On Saturday (20/01/21) I spent nearly two...

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Sim Elliott

Jan 27, 2021
10 min

Birds as symbols in art.

Revised: 02/02.21 Birds are frequently used as symbols in art; to express human-animal connection; human hopes; spiritual beliefs; and...

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On Photography: Pavement botany; savouring pleasures felt finding beauty in the built environment.

Sim Elliott

Jan 6, 2021
5 min

On Photography: Pavement botany; savouring pleasures felt finding beauty in the built environment.

Photography is many things: a profession, a hobby, what you do on holiday, an art form, a form of activism, a way of making scientific...

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Sim Elliott

Jan 1, 2021
1 min

Stanmer Woods - Shape, Colour, Pattern.

This blog post is a record of my experience of walking through Stanmer Wood and focussing my attention on what I saw, "bathing in the...

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Slow looking: taking my time watching a Moorhen and a Little Egret

Sim Elliott

Dec 4, 2020
4 min

Slow looking: taking my time watching a Moorhen and a Little Egret

Slow looking is a form of mindfulness and, as such, an antidote to mindlessness and distraction. It teaches us to be present in our...

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"Ringed by the flat horizon": Photographs of the coast, Brighton to Goring, and painted landscapes.

Sim Elliott

Nov 24, 2020
2 min

"Ringed by the flat horizon": Photographs of the coast, Brighton to Goring, and painted landscapes.

These photos of the coast from Brighton to Goring were taken whilst cycling along the National Cycle Network Route 2 on Monday 23/11/20....

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(The sublime) landscape and wellbeing in the time of covid-19.

Sim Elliott

Nov 23, 2020
6 min

(The sublime) landscape and wellbeing in the time of covid-19.

The importance of experiencing "sublime" landscapes was known to elite 18th and 19th century Grand Tourists; and was theorised by the...

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Sim Elliott

Nov 20, 2020
3 min

Franz Marc, Animals and Spirituality

Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and print maker. He was a colleague of Kandinsky, and one of the...

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