Overdyed Fern Panel

Limited Edition

Printed and Overdyed with Natural Pigment

A limited edition.  Only two panels available in each colourway.

Ancient Alchemy ~ Iron Red begins with a rock face in the Waterberg and the artists who worked on it thousands of years ago. Rooted in the same iron oxide pigment that gave San rock art its enduring brilliance, it sits naturally alongside Ochre and Antique Rust in our warm tone palette. Read the full story here. 

Design Inspiration: Thomas C. Blagrave, a retired lieutenant colonel from England, created this comprehensive study of ferns in South Africa in 1860 and recorded his findings in a unique format. We fell in love with the textures of the photographic paper and the iridescent effect of the film, while the fern patterns were kept stark, clean, and true to their natural state. Blagrave writes in the preface of the book: "The illustrations are photo prints made by myself at Wynberg, during May, June and July, 1860, from fresh and dried specimens either of my own or Dr. Pappe's herbarium".