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SUMMARY:The Atkinson: The Atkinson: The Poetry of Trees
DESCRIPTION:The Atkinson: The Poetry of Trees\n\nFree Entry\n\nMonday – S
 aturday. 10am – 4pm.\nClosed Sundays &amp\; Bank Holidays.\n\n\n\nThis 
 exhibition features a wide range of artists who are fascinated by trees\, 
 some for their aesthetic appeal\, others exploring their potential for sym
 bolic meaning. Artists around the world have developed deeply personal rel
 ationships with trees which have become central to their art. Thomas Pitfi
 eld’s series of linocuts ‘The Poetry of Trees’ draws out the romanti
 c associations of native British trees\, while Ibrahim El Salahi’s magni
 ficent ‘Meditation Tree’ is a large-scale sculptural evocation of the 
 haraza tree that grows on the banks of the Nile.\n\nTrees have a deep hist
 ory in folklore and mythology. Arthur Rackham was the master of drawing an
 thropomorphic trees that can be creepy or malevolent\, bringing to life fa
 iry tales like ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and gothic tales such as ‘The Legend
  of Sleepy Hollow’. William Stott’s ‘Fairie Wood’ and William Dods
 on’s ‘Babes in the Wood’ both look back to a time when our native fo
 rests were the last wilderness\, place of dark magic and fear. In contrast
 \, twentieth century artists like Philip Connard and Paul Nash found solac
 e in our woodlands after the horrors of serving in the First World War. On
 e of the highlights of the exhibition is Edward Bawden’s ‘Willow Grove
 ’ from the mid-1930s\, evoking a mysterious sense of place in the Essex 
 countryside\n\nAs early as the seventeenth century artists and writers wer
 e campaigning for the renewal of our forests. John Evelyn’s ‘Sylva\, A
  Discourse of Forest Trees…’ called upon the government to plant more 
 trees to service the demand for shipbuilding. New engravings were added to
  Evelyn’s text in the eighteenth century featuring some of Britain’s o
 ldest trees like the Cawthorpe Oak and the Greendale Oak. The key environm
 ental role of trees and the importance of engaging with nature are explore
 d in recent sculptural work by Tony Heywood and David Nash.\n\nThere is a 
 growing awareness of the part that trees play in our individual wellbeing 
 and the health of the planet. ‘The Poetry of Trees’ presents a range o
 f artistic perspectives to help us reconnect with the natural world.\n
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LOCATION:The Atkinson\, Lord Street\, Southport\, Sefton\, PR8 1DB\, Sefton
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