Wildlife has plummeted by an average of 60% since 1970
There is nothing better than spending time exploring a hedgerow or wild field or woodland. Butterflies, hoverflies, beetles and even the odd frog will show itself. Being in nature is vital for health and well-being. Find your nearest nature reserve, park or botanical garden head for whatever is flowering and take your time. It’s good for your mental and physical health to get outside and nature provides a wonderful distraction. Making a one hour walk part of your daily schedule (even on the way to work) will always leave you feeling positive. Think about the time of day to maximise your favourites, early will be full of song birds, mid–day will bring butterflies and other insects, and bats in the evening dusk.
Do everything you can to bring nature into your garden and street and plan your gardening around the rhythms of the seasons. Learning about plants and wildlife and how it relates to farming and the seasons was part of our (old-school) primary school education and protection was a vital factor, we need to find our collective RESPECT toward our ancestral lands and what lives with us. It is worrying to note that in some parts of Europe insect life has fallen up to 70% and the estimated value of services provided by insects is enormous and cannot be easily replaced. We need nature and we really need to love the pollinating insects.
A radical rethinking of our food systems and consumption–led lifestyle must happen to help bring about a blooming abundance. It starts with respecting life and re–wilding (as George Monbiot says) space used to feed animals we don’t need to be eating. We have all the information and each need to make informed and conscious choices. The personal and community benefits are worthy of our effort.
IN PICTURES — Dragonflies, bee’s, hoverflies and butterflies in Norfolk and Costwolds, England.
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ABOUT STUDIO GRRR
Hiya, we are Glen & Rebecca mischievously-led married couple with a shared love of books, drawing, colour, pattern and stories.
We make Art, Design Book Covers and Tell Stories.
For thirty years we have been Artists, Designers, Educators, Public Speakers, Creative Nomads and Heritage Crafts People.
Nice to meet you.
We believe creativity has an important role in our society and stories in the form of art, design and writing provide a vital gateway to our continued education and open doors to the imagination of others. At their best stories can challenge the way we view world and creativity gives these crucial ideas form and permanence. For thirty years we have found and lost, read, watched and listened to many fairy tales, folk-stories, discovered ancient symbols and thought about the reality of things (we believe stories are the orienting structures of our lives and language shapes reality).
Our artists books, paintings, journals, street art, pamphlets and zines have been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Leeds City Art Gallery, Hotel Maria Kapel (NL), The Enschede Academy of Visual Arts (NL), East Gallery (Norwich), Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), Permanent Gallery (Brighton) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Manchester Craft and Design Centre, K Gallery (California) SHOWROOM (Austria), Bureau Gallery (Manchester), PrintROOM’s AmsterdamZineJam and The Anti Design Festival (London)
DESIGN & COMMERCIAL WORK
We currently focus on book cover design and editorial based projects for independent and commercial publishers, research departments, universities, cultural organisations, academics and artisan makers. We have recently completed projects funded by The National Centre for Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich University of the Arts, The Lithuanian Culture Institute, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Pro Helvetia, LTI Korea and The Nippon Foundation.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP IN ARTS EDUCATION
Glen has been working in the Creative Industry for over thirty years and has been a Leading Design Educator for over twenty years. He has been an Educator to some of the most influential Graphic Designers and Notorious Creative Leaders around today and has taught students from all over the world. He has developed a deep understanding for mentoring designers which empowers and celebrates individuality and fosters a critical approach to creativity through curiosity, play and discovery. He is course leader for a unique rabble-rousing bunch of story-tellers on the BA (Hons) Design for Publishing and BA (Hons) Graphic Design Programmes at Norwich University of the Arts.
WORDS ART PHOTOGRAPHY By Glen & Rebecca (aka Studio GRRR)
Words are reproduced without permission and published as a matter of public interest.
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BLOG AND STORIES
Our Blog is a curated collection of articles, stories, reprints, photographic essays, conversations and inspriation written for the curious minds of analogue people living in a digital world. Through our life’s journey we stumble through layered narratives found in naturally occurring intersections between the metaphysical realm, and terrestrial landscape, collecting spell fragments from a cast of unlikely collaborators.
Angels, demons, gods, ancestors, aliens tell of a bizarre world brimming with legacy broadcast media, music, philosophy, literature, fictional characters, and the simple truth of everyday life and death.
From this confused debris we conjure and construe interconnecting polychromic stories (we think stories and light are the orienting structures of our lives) about art, creative practice, communication theory, how language shapes our reality, mental and physical health, comedy, music, the politics of bullshit and lashings of esoteric flim-flam.
