THE PALM HOUSE, KEW

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The size and structure of the glass houses at Kew just make me stop; look up and stare. My favourite is the Palm House. Slightly more intimate and absolutely stuffed full of huge (and minute) lush, glistening leaves.

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On this particular visit the awesome One Thousand Springs by artist Chiharu Shiota was on display in the Temperate House, and if you click here you’ll see how the two have mingled in my mind. Fun fact; One Thousand Springs was also the inspiration behind the One Hundred Haiku installation we did for MedwayArtBox.

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This is a mono screen print onto canvas. It’s made by painting the image directly onto the screen’s mesh. The screen is lowered onto the canvas and then a squeegee is used to ‘pull the print’ which just means sliding the squeegee over the painted image and pushing the paint through the mesh. This is one of those types of printing techniques where you never know how it's going to turn out until the reveal.