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		<title>Winterbourne Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exhibition of my Leafcutter Bee Drawings is now up at the Coach House Gallery, Winterbourne House and Garden, Edgbaston, B15 2RT. The exhibition runs until 29th April, so plenty of time to catch it if you are in the area. There is a special event, &#8220;Bugs, Bees, Plants and Trees&#8221; in the garden at Winterbourne on Saturday 20th April<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2013/04/winterbourne-exhibition/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Article in The Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a little update to mention that a small piece appeared in last Sunday&#8217;s Times Newspaper (16th March) with details of my upcoming exhibition at Winterbourne House and Garden (5th-23rd April). Further information on the exhibition can be found in this earlier blog post. Images of drawings which will be appearing in the exhibition are now online here: Leafcutter Bees<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2013/03/article-in-the-times/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leafcutter bee feeding on borage flower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Feeding on Borage Flower”, 2012 Ink and brush on Fabriano paper, approx. 6″ x 9″ Here is a detail of another of my series of Leafcutter Bees in brush and ink. This is one of a Leafcutter feeding on borage flowers last summer. At the moment the bees are over-wintering in the bee-house in the shed, but soon they will<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2013/01/leafcutter-bee-feeding-on-borage-flower/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting a leaf circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Leafcutter Bee Cutting Leaf Circle from Rose Branch”, 2012 Ink and brush with some body colour, on Bristol Board, approx. 7″ x 4.5″ Here&#8217;s another in my series of ink drawings based on Leafcutter Bees. This one shows a bee on a branch of rose leaves which are one of their favourite plants for harvesting nest material. Watching a bee cut a<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/11/cutting-a-leaf-circle/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liverwort in Pencil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Liverworts”, 2012 Pencil on Cartridge paper, approx. 11&#8243; x 9&#8243; I have masses of liverwort in my garden around the edges of the pond, and in crevices in the pathways. Along with mosses they are some of my favourite plants. I love them for their simplicity and lack of colourful flowers, and as I have mentioned before, for the the<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/10/liverwort-in-pencil/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leafcutter bee in flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Leafcutter Bee in Flight”, 2012 Ink and brush on Fabriano paper, approx. 4.5″ x 7″ A solitary Leafcutter bee returned to lay in the bee houses this year. Due to the rain and cold weather she has completed less than one tube of cells this summer, on which the hope of leafcutters next year now rests. I will over-winter them in the tool shed<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/09/leafcutter-bee-in-flight/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leafcutter bee emerging, in brush and ink</title>
		<link>https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/08/leafcutter-bee-emerging-in-ink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Leafcutter Bee Emerging&#8221;, 2012 Ink and brush on Fabriano paper, approx. 6&#8243;x 5&#8243; After almost a year lived in perfect darkness inside a leaf cell, a leafcutter bee emerges into the light. First its antennae, then its eyes experiencing the world for the first time. In its jaws are the dried leaves of the cell from which the bee has just broken<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/08/leafcutter-bee-emerging-in-ink/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lichen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have lots of lichen, moss and liverwort in my garden, and I like to encourage them, especially the mosses which are spreading to all sorts of places this damp summer. The way they form miniature &#8216;forests&#8217; appeals to my love of detail and small things. A few weeks ago I decided to start some sketches of lichen fairly soon, and that same<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/08/lichen/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A dry oak leaf in ink</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above: Four stages in the drawing of a dried oak leaf, using ink and a brush. Click on any of the thumbnails for a closer look. For this drawing I worked from life, using an oak leaf I had found during a walk. I lit the leaf low from the side, so that I could study its veins. I first<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/07/a-dry-oak-leaf-in-ink/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rose leaves in ink</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer I picked and kept some of the rose leaves, including some which the leaf-cutter bees had used to make their nests. Over winter I&#8217;ve been drawing some of these dried leaves and learning about their structure, as well as working out a new technique of drawing in ink. The drawings have mainly been practices for me, as I begin to put<span class="before-more-link">...</span><a class="more-link" href="https://www.christinefarmer.com/home/2012/05/rose-leaves-in-ink/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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