This is the second of the (on-going) Habitat Series to focus on conveying the feeling of a particular habitat, the rainforest. Most are in tropical areas and so very warm year around and never dry. Here the work is based on an entire back piece, an ink drawing of a tree and lianas, with speckles suggesting rain or drips, large greenery and quite a lot of frogs all to evoke the feeling of being in a warm rain forest.
Rainforests are home to an astonishingly rich assortment of species. They are often cited as the world's richest repository of terrestrial diversity, including hundreds of tree species, and animals. Frogs are, of course only one type of animal found in the rainforests, but they are evocative of the high humidity and wet that is constant in the rainforest. Many frogs never go down to the ground because they can lay their eggs in pools of water collected in air plants.
Rainforests filter and clean air and store large amounts of carbon. They make rain and play a major role in regulating the global climate. Their large-scale destruction causes large amounts of carbon to be released and at current and projected rates may cause significant changes in climate.
- Framed: 85 x 63 cm (33.46 x 24.8 in)
- Created: February 28, 2022
- Collections: Habitat Series: Forests and Oceans