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Pollen Paintings

By  Ruth Philo 2024

Photo: Douglas Atfield

Series of paintings, using pollen colour, connecting with landscape and time, referencing The Pollen Loads of the Honeybee by Dorothy Hodges, 1952 & collection in Kew Gardens Library

Photo: Douglas Atfield

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