JAN O'HIGHWAY, british mosaic and ceramic artist

NEWS

WITH BEAUTY BEFORE US: the Springtime wildflowers of Crete

Next April I'm very happy to have been invited by the environmental charity Flowers of Crete in association with the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC) to run a week-long arts/science workshop in Scanner-Photography at the OAC Botanic Museum and Garden, Kolympari, on the lovely North West Cretan coast.

The not-for-profit OAC has been organizing international conferences and other activities to encourage mutual understanding on an interfaith, intercultural and inter-scientific level since 1968.

With Beauty Before Us is a science/art venture; a week-long print-making workshop (maximum 15 students) exploring the wildflowers and botanical riches of Crete through the slow moving lens of a flatbed scanner. I'll be assisted by Julia Jones, FLS (Fellow of the Linnean Society) artist, botanist and President of "Flowers of Crete", a charity dedicated to the preservation of the island's indigenous flora.

With a focus on the Cretan flora, there will be excursions to the spectacular Spring orchid and wildflower fields of the mountains led by Botanic experts Professor Jacques Zaffran who established the Botanic Museum and Garden, and Julia Jones who, passionate about the wildflowers, has lived on Crete for 15 years.

Scanner-photography is easy and fun to learn and a great tool for artists, scientists, teachers and anyone who loves exploring the natural world...we'll have walking, talking (lots), an exhibition of work, and a wonderful Gala Dinner with Cretan dancing...I'm really looking forward to April, it's going to be great....

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

www.flowersofcrete.info
www.oac.gr

TOTNES HEALTHY FUTURES

TOTNES HEALTHY FUTURES, a gardening project linking community food growing with the NHS, are using my scans in their recipe cards.totneshealthyfutures.co.uk

The cards are available from Catherine Munro: 50p each or set of 4 for £2, + p&p
info.totneshealthyfutures@gmail.com

SCANNER-PHOTOGRAPHY

I've made a Blurb book about my scanner-photographs (82 page 7"x7" square)

Preview / buy the book

Blurb prints on FSC papers (paper certified to come from sustainable sources)

Large scans

Issue 29 of Markings literary magazine, edited by John Hudson and Chrys Salt, features scanner-photographs of bones by Jan O'Highway

Issue 29 of Markings literary magazine, edited by John Hudson and Chrys Salt, features scanner-photographs of bones by Jan O'Highway, and tributes to sculptress Elizabeth Waugh at 80, artists Jeff White and John Budgett.

There is also a substantial section of book reviews and an interview with Scottish writer Sheena Blackhall Middleton. Issue 29 will be published with an accompanying pocket edition of poetry by John Harrison with an introduction by Peter Brook.

£7.00 + p&p
www.thebakehouse.info

Buy this scan by Jan O'Highway