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Artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous plants.
'A beautiful, quiet, achingly tender book. A year spent with weeds; giving voice to the exquisite and the everyday alike... It’s a reminder that the circle always turns; the light always comes back' Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places
‘A year of sketching and musing on the unplanted, unplanned, unremarkable greenery that surrounds us all every day. A celebration of disorder and doing nothing – the perfect antidote to the modern belief that something only exists once it’s been captured by your phone' Ken Thompson, author of Common or Garden
'Anna Chapman Parker weaves together art history, botany, ecosystems, and the routines of everyday life in this gracefully illuminating account of a year drawing weeds. Through the shifting seasons, Chapman Parker’s drawings and prose reveal the extraordinary value of plants that are generally taken for granted, ignored, or obliterated, and the power of stopping to look carefully, pen in hand' Alixe Bovey, Dean and Deputy Director at The Courtauld
'A delicately written study of the joys and difficulties of paying attention' Jessie Greengrass, author of The High House
'What a brilliant idea, to fit into the interstices of days full of work and two children, the very plants that are themselves so good at filling the interstices of our daily lives. The attention that Anna Chapman Parker has given to the ordinary weeds surrounding her, both in drawings and words, gives them a heightened glamour, presence and worth' Ruth Pavey, author of A Wood of One's Own
Anna Chapman Parker is a writer, teacher and artist specialising in drawing. She trained at the University of Edinburgh and Wimbledon College of Art. Recent exhibitions and teaching collaborations include Edinburgh Festival of Art, National Galleries of Scotland and the National Trust. Her writing has appeared in Rake’s Progress and Happy Hypocrite. She lives in Berwick-on-Tweed. Understorey is her first book. Visit her website to learn more: www.annachapman.co.uk