Becca Thorne has delightedly announced that her Marginal Habitat series has been shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2023! These prestigious awards showcase the best illustration from across the world, and are run by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the Directory of Illustration. The shortlist of 200 pieces was selected by a global panel of industry judges from 5,000 worldwide entries.
Marginal Habitats is a trio of linocut prints celebrating slender but vital semi-natural UK environments. These spaces were moulded by humans and, as an important part of the landscape for hundreds of years, many wildlife species have come to rely on them, either as a home, food source, wildlife corridor, or rest spot. Unfortunately, changes in farming and planning over the last 75 years have seen huge losses in these spaces and the wildlife that calls them home, but simple changes can bring them back: maintaining remaining village ponds and adding small ones to home gardens; replanting lost hedgerows with diverse native shrubs and maintaining those that remain; leaving a couple of metres of un-cropped space between arable crops and field boundaries. All these efforts will help create a better balance in the number of ‘pest’ creatures – ponds encourage frogs and toads that eat slugs, field margins and hedgerows bring in more birds and predatory beetles that eat aphids, caterpillars and other crop pests – and so reduce the need for harmful pesticides.
The prints were created in a long landscape format, to be experienced like the habitats might be in real life. Becca states; “I wanted people to be drawn in by the initial shapes and composition, and then start noticing all the plants and creatures hidden within, and think about where they’d seen them in real life – wild places they’ve been and enjoyed – a reminder of how important these places are.”
The series is printed on sustainable lokta paper, and all pieces are available to buy through her store.
@b_thorney
www.beccathorne.co.uk
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