10 VARIATIONS ON A GREEN THEME

From living art to glass, we’ve collected 10 Beautiful Green works to share with you.

1. GREEN BEETLE

Green graffiti re-faces vs defaces the urban landscape. It’s alive. Some, like “Green Beetle,” by moss artist Edina Tokodi, create mini ecosystems.  

2. MOSAÏCULTURES

In a massive effort, to create Beautiful Green art, over 200 horticultural artists, from around the world, recently created 40 living plant sculptures. They used more than 3 million plants, including 22,000 different species.

Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal (MIM), in association with the city’s Parks, Gardens and Green Spaces Department, made this Beautiful Green wonderland come alive.

The mission: to promote gardening and horticulture as well as to focus attention on the need for Beautiful Green in the urban landscape.

MIM has produced similar works in public green spaces in key cities around the world, and plans to continue expanding.

3. DUNKELD HOUSE FISHERMAN

Green sculptures often create whimsy, like the fisherman at Dunkeld House in Perthshire, UK. They are a bridge between what humans create and what nature creates. Sometimes, both seem to have a sense of humor -- and a sense of purpose.

4. FORET VIERGE CONSOLE

If you can’t live in the Beautiful Green woods, you can bring the Beautiful Green woods to live with you. The Foret Vierge Console is made of maple wood, covered in reindeer moss. An amethyst and gold painted gemstone beetle comes mounted and centered on the apron. It’s available in custom sizes with custom gemstones.

5. COAT MADE OF MOSS

“Make Me a Coat of Rich Green Moss and I Will Return to the Forest to Gather All That I Lost”

Be Well And Happy shared her sister’s ‘Coat made of Moss.’ We wish it we could wear it!

And we’d love to see more.

6. NORTHUMBERLANDIA, THE LADY OF THE NORTH

Charles Jencks’ land sculpture, near Newcastle, UK, is the largest human form on earth. It stretches over ¼ mile long and is 100 feet at its highest points (her breasts).  The locals simply call it “The Lady.”

The Lady is a joint project of the Blagdon Estate, a 10,000-acre family property that dates to 1698, and the Banks Group, an energy company.

As the Banks company extracted the coal from a surface mine, it used the 1.5 metric tons of earth that was displaced to create this sculpture.

The Lady is leased for 99 years to a charity named the Land Trust.

7. GREEN MOUNTAIN MORNING

“Light means life” to Tony Mitchell. He plays with light in his glass sculptures, varying the angles and textures of simple surfaces. “Green Mountain Morning” is a spectacular exercise in simple complexity.  We found it recently on exhibition at the Queensland Arts Alliance 2014 Arts Expo.   

8. GARDEN AND GLASS

Chihuly Garden and Glass  is located right next to the Space Needle, in Seattle. It makes a Beautiful Green even more beautiful. The garden might have been entirely of his organic glass shapes, and that would have been amazing. But the combination of these delicate transparent “plants” in a setting with real living plants is beyond magical. Each element makes the other vibrate with brilliance.

9. T WITH TUDE

“T with Tude” is an undulating green glass sculpture by Harry Pollitt. He plays with vertical and horizontal lines, just as an artist with an engineering background, like he is, might.

“I feel that the emerald green works especially well with the design,” says Pollitt. It was the first time he ever worked with this color. “It is both strong and sensuous and provides a unusual amount of translucency – changing from dark to light, depending upon the thickness of the glass,” he explains.

10. RESURRECTION

Artist Jason Decaires Taylor used a live purple Gorgonian fan coral (Gorgonia flabellum) that he rescued after it had been displaced in a storm to create “Resurrection,” an underwater sculpture. The coral is oriented towards the current, to maximize its ability to draw nutrients from the water.

The figure rises up out of the green kelp bed, as if born from it -- a resurrection of spirit, consciousness, and life itself,

Read more about Beautiful Green, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Gorgeous Green Crystals & Creatures, 10 Gorgeous Green Leafy Cocktails, New Pages of Beautiful Green.

Enter this week’s BN Creative Photo Competition. Our theme this week is Beautiful Green. Deadline is 04.27.14.

Photo Credits: 

1. Photo: By Morten Flyverbom. “Green Beetle” by Edina Tokodi.
2. Photo: by Racineur. Mosaïcultures Montréal.
3. Photo: by Multivac42. Mosaïcultures Internationales.
4. Photo: by Pascal Gaudette. Terre Mere sculpture at Mosaïcultures Internationales.
5. Photo: Courtesy of Mosaicultures Internationales Montreal. Woman and deer plant sculpture.
6. Photo: by Simon Johnston. Sculpture at Dunkeld House, Perthshire.
7. Photo: Courtesy of Dennis Miller Associates. Foret Vierge Console.
8. Photo: Courtesy of Carlow Arts Festival. “Make Me a Coat of Rich Green Moss."
9. Photo: by Graeme Peacock. Land Sculpture by Charles Jencks.
10. Photo: Courtesy of Queensland Arts Alliance. “Green Mountain Morning” by Tony Mitchell .
11. Photo: Courtesy of Woman in the Middle. Chihuly Garden and Glass sculptures.
12. Photo: by Harry Pollitt. “T with Tude.”
13. Photo: by Jason Decaires Taylor. “Resurrection”