Yesterday I spent some time with the artwork of Lizzie Harper. She’s an natute artist with an uncanny ability to capture living things and spends her life documenting plants, mushrooms, fish, birds, and beetles in the UK. She lives in the heart of Wales and her illustrations grace such wonders as the British common Wildflower Guide and a good many environmental projects.
Her work is hours and hours of sketching, then painstaking pen outline followed by glorious watercolor. And such a vibrant appreciation for her subject matter that it positively glows off the page. See what I mean.
Isn’t that amazing? She layers so much detail into her art. Don’t you wish you could just follow her around and pick up every tossed out scrap of paper and cocktail napkin she doodles on? You know they’re amazing.
Of course the very sad news is that living in Wales she’s had woefully little chance to paint the most important Ecosystem Engineer of all time. What a cruel failure of the British Government not to have given her beavers to paint when she would clearly find them fascinating. She obviously hungers to illustrate the complex relationships found in wetlands.
But something tells me her luck, even in wales is, about to change. Beavers are coming. You may not have spent much time with them yet but take heart, they’re on their way, Lizzie, And we at Worth A Dam can help. If you need any photos to work from, just ask us. Consider us on permanent stand-by.
After 12 years of living with beaver we have ever single photo you might ever need to inform your work. And beaver chewed sticks and skulls if you’re so inclined. Plus thousands of adults and children to gasp and learn or follow your talents in awe.
Call me?
