Description
Waggle Dance is an artwork I produced in 2022. The painting was my response to an invitation by the somewhere nowhere duo of Harriet and Rob Fraser. They asked artists to create work based on the themes of creativity, connection and place whilst on a walk within Cumbria.
I wanted to create a piece of work that brought home the connectivity we all have, with the life around us that we don’t always notice, but once we know about it, our understanding of place is almost always better. If collectively we can know more about our surroundings, rural and urban, then we’re likely to enjoy it more, respect it more, and hopefully be healthier people for that. So, this painting is a study on hives of honey bees in the Lyth Valley in Cumbria, and the route they took, and I followed, from hive to food sources.
The Waggle Dance is well understood behaviour of the honey bee. Long story, very short, the waggle dance is how one honey bee can communicate with other honey bees within the hive, on the source of food and water supplies. I can imagine though that there are details to it that we are still to discover.
Here we have a limited edition run of 1/51 (I painted it in my 51st year). I will individually sign and number each print with UV ink, in a nod to the original paintings use of UV to part illustrate the way bees can locate pollen in their environment.
The prints are 865mm X 350mm (includes a 25mm border)
