Favorite places require and deserve repeat visits. So here we are again, on Campobello Island looking out toward a rapidly disappearing Quoddy Head in Maine. Closer, we see the meandering channels …
this lichen grows within the barnacle's shell - the black spots are perithecia (formerly Pyrenocollema) Lopez Island, WA scanned slide - date unknown
This white ceramic pendant imprinted with lichen forms part of my Botanical Collection inspired by the nearby ancient woodland of Tycanol. The rocky outcrops overgrown in gnarly oak trees with hanging wisps of lichen and boulders covered with vivid green moss provide a magical backdrop. The piece has been hand shaped, decorated and glazed with crackle effect for a vintage look. The pendant measures approximately 2.5cm x 4.2cm and is suspended on a black coloured hemp cord with handmade ceramic beads and barnacle shells. Each piece will be carefully wrapped and sent in a gift box (even if it is a gift to yourself!) Read more
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photographed in Yellowstone National Park
Pulled up a loose board from one of our groins that was about to tear away. Once it was out of the water, I discovered a cluster of barnacles that had attached themselves firmly to the wood. I was taken with the circular symmetry of these crusty shell-like crustateans that eat plankton. Once I discovered what they were and what they ate, I had an AAAHAA moment. I've been involved in a NOAA study collecting water samples from around my dock and then analyzing the water under a microscope trying to identify Phytoplankton. The study is looking for Phytoplankton that can be harmful to the waters, causing toxic alga blooms that can be harmful to humans and/or degrade ecosystems by forming large blooms. I've been pretty discouraged, since most of my samples have turned up not one Phytoplankton of any type--good or bad. There are other little creatures in the water, but I've found nothing that the study would be interested in. So, I inspected all the groins (we have three) and all of our pilings and found that barnacles were growing on all of them. Maybe its not the fact that I'm doing something wrong or am missing these little creatures under the microscope. Maybe, the barnacles have eaten them before I can find them! I'm feeling a little less like a failure. Barnacle encrusted board Groins are projections that usually run perpendicular to the shore into the water. They act as breaks to the water and their main purpose is to collect sand, helping to replenish in winter what the summer tides have washed away. Isn't nature amazing!
When you walk into a beautiful woodland forest there are so many unique pieces of artwork there from Mother nature. Look close and see how intricate these lichens are. Some look like venus fly traps while others like seen here have very unusual craters/barnacles or even eyeball looking things. Bits of old mans beard or other types of moss and or lichens may also be attached. These are STILL ALIVE and will continue to grow. Watch the leaves unfurl and magically grow larger when they get wet! They will average from about 1x1 inch up to a 3+ inch sized. You will receive no less than 6 pieces all assorted as these are made by mother nature herself!
Thelotrema lepadinum 'Bark Barnacles'. Thanks to John Davis for the probable ID. Gray crustose lichen with a thin, continuous to rimose cracked thallus with abundant apothecia resembling small volcanoes or barnacles with cavities where the disk would normally be. Growing on the mossy bark of a Hemlock tree, Cowichan Provincial Park, Duncan, Vancouver Island, 5876September_14__2010
When you walk into a beautiful woodland forest there are so many unique pieces of artwork there from Mother nature. Look close and see how intricate these lichens are. Some look like venus fly traps while others like seen here have very unusual craters/barnacles or even eyeball looking things. Bits of old mans beard or other types of moss and or lichens may also be attached. These are NOT ALIVE anymore. They will average from about 1x1 inch up to a 3+ inch sized. You will receive no less than 6 pieces all assorted as these are made by mother nature herself!
When you walk into a beautiful woodland forest there are so many unique pieces of artwork there from Mother nature. Look close and see how intricate these lichens are. Some look like venus fly traps while others like seen here have very unusual craters/barnacles or even eyeball looking things. Bits of old mans beard or other types of moss and or lichens may also be attached. These are NOT ALIVE anymore. They will average from about 1x1 inch up to a 3+ inch sized. You will receive no less than 6 pieces all assorted as these are made by mother nature herself!
ever since I saw some Ramalina while hiking in CA I've been on a lichen kick so I did some digging through my travel photos. I love the colors and small scale craters on this species.
In amongst all of the nice new boats was an old boat, decaying on the estuary mud and slowly becoming one with nature again!
A close-up from my new piece 'Stepping Stones'. All naturally-dyed wool and thread set into poplar.
it has been such a long time since posting, but perhaps I have finally learned how to download photos onto my blog from my ipad..life will be so much simpler that way...and so here is my first try at this...and here are some of my major obsessions this spring....the first is a stool which is for a fundraising auction for Grandmothers for Grandmothers In July on our island they will auction off many chairs and stools which people have donated and others have volunteers their artwork, and thanks to a great group of dedicated grandmothers they raise a substantial amount to send to the Stephen Lewis foundation....so thus my stool....very barnacle and underwater look and shibori felted the top and then did felting on the rungs etc....very fun and now the page won't s roll, so briefly my new blankets one mushroom indigo dyed..very light and airy And who knew I would become weaving obsessed....so nine blankets later and I am trying to detAch and move into gourds again .....wish me luck so very hard to leave soft fibers and all that color butI do love gourds ...and then felting dyeing eco printing.....please hold me back..life is too fun...
Jill Bliss is an artist (and naturalist, educator, farmhand, caretaker, and deckhand) who lives on a small island in the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. In 2012 she sold her house and nearly everything she owned to move to the island and reconnect with nature after a busy career as a designer in New York and San Francisco. Using a wide assortment of the beautifully vibrant wild fungi she finds, Bliss turns them into stunning arrangements and photographs them for a project she calls Nature Medleys. See below for a collection of some of our favorites. You can follow the artist on Instagram, and you can also find much of her work for sale in her online shop.
These little Lichen cup stud earrings are crafted in 100% Recycled Gold and feature little cluster details. Approximately 4mm in size and perfect for daily wear. Available in 9, 14 & 18ct Gold Please allow 2-3 weeks for me to make your earrings. For more information about me and the Jewellery I create, please visit my website - www.melissayarlett.co.uk
Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Tubulariidae, Siphonophora, Semaeostomeae, star corals, starfishes, much more. All images in black and white.
