Carolann Parr Art

For my FMP, I didn't know what I wanted to create other than it being around the natural world. I went through a lot of different possible ideas on what the main focus could be, all of them having the outcome of a book. Due to the abundance of ideas I had at the beginning of the FMP, I wanted to make a collection of experiments and research around a group of plants however I was spending most the time struggling in picking this group. I looked at local flowers such as flowers from my local park or parks I regularly go to with family - this having more of a focus of memories and family love - as well as plants local/with special symbolism to Nottingham - this is one I struggled to find information on. Some other ideas I looked at were working with the plants from the castle project, folk lore, love/affection, medical, plants with personal meanings (both myself and other people), and others.  As I liked all my ideas and was struggling to settle on just one, my making was put aside a...

  This is text taken from online sources, that I have then highlighted information i want to use for my own text - large parts of unneeded information was removed Green - information on the plant it self Pink - background information/stories on people who has eaten or used it ( Text ) Foxglove, from the genus Digitalis, is a beautiful plant with bell-shaped flowers in various colors like purple, white, and yellow . Despite its innocent appearance, foxglove contains digoxin, a potent toxin that can cause heart failure. Historically, people have used it to treat heart ailments, but its lethal properties have also made it a popular murder weapon in fiction and reality. Digoxin poisoning is slow-acting and difficult to trace, often resulting in heart attacks that can be mistaken for natural causes . Notable cases include a nurse in Toronto charged with  murdering four babies  and a woman in Belgium responsible for  26 deaths . Foxglove’s accessibility and deadly n...

 This is text taken from online sources, that I have then highlighted information i want to use for my own text - large parts of unneeded information was removed - accidently deleted some text after i used it in my work Green - information on the plant it self Pink - background information/stories on people who has eaten or used it ( Text )  Described by  Pliny the Elder  in  Ancient Rome ,  oleander  is a beautiful plant known for its striking flowers. Though commonly grown as a hedge and ornamental , all parts of the oleander plant are deadly and contain lethal cardiac  glycosides  known as oleandrin and neriine . If eaten, oleander can cause vomiting, diarrhea, erratic pulse, seizures, coma, and death, and contact with the leaves and sap is known to be a skin irritant to some people . Indeed, the toxins in oleander are so strong that people have become ill after eating  honey  made by  bees  that visited the flowers...

These are some of the displaying options i have thought about for this project, exploring adding different elements to the wall alongside the paintings such as a lose paintings or text. - These ideas are more of a simple, putting onto the wall, as my original ideas but i think will still work well These are my first ideas for displaying the work  - this has stayed through out the making process, only changing a little for some ideas Painting a lose meadow under the paintings, I'm unsure if this would add or take away from the painting - not going to do this as i don't have time to do proper experiments on how I'm going to paint it having text in the meadow - look into having the grass form the word (wont be able to do as not enough time to work this out/do experiments) Text on the top - don't think i want to add this cause it instally tells the viewer that they are not safe and i do not want this for my text. I also think this might work better for a future project. Thi...

These are the progression photos of the Oleander painting, this one was meant to be painted in the same way as the foxglove one however due to time it ended up a lot duller then i wanted as well as not fully finished to what i want. Despite this it still looks like a finished piece. This still works however as this plant makes you very ill, the painting does show this so it still works just not how i wanted it to ordinally work. This is how i originally had it however i wanted to add onto the one on the bottom comer to it looked more finished.  

 My ideas around the text changed a lot over the past month or so, going between long sections or text to singular words as well as changing between going onto the painting, making a book or having on the wall. I ended on having 3 longer sections of text in Latin, one for each plant, and this will be separate from the painting (this was due to time). I was planning on doing 3 words (one being the name of the plant) however when i started to experiment with this, i found that the words did not look right. Why Latin? - after a talk with Denis on my work, she recommended looking into using another language, i like this idea as it keeps more towards the unknown elements of my work. I wanted to do it in Latin as plants are named in Latin, i wanted to do the same type of Latin that plants are named in however this is a type of Latin that was developed for the purpose of naming plants - can not translate the text into this type due to this. My text experiments, both some tests with one wo...

 This is text taken from online sources, that I have then highlighted information i want to use for my own text - large parts of unneeded information was removed Green - information on the plant it self Pink - background information/stories on people who has eaten or used it Jimsonweed, also known as devil’s trumpet or thorn apple, is a striking plant with spiny seedpods and lovely trumpet-shaped white or lavender blossoms that open at dusk . Found in roadsides, ditches, and open fields across many states, it has potent psychotropic, hallucinogenic, and narcotic properties. Even brief contact with Jimsonweed can cause severe side effects like dilated pupils, hallucinations, delirium, and, in extreme cases, coma or seizures . In 1676,  British soldiers  sent to Virginia to quell Bacon’s Rebellion ingested Jimsonweed in a boiled salad and remained in a stupor for 11 days. More recently, in 2008,  a family in Maryland was poisoned  when they mistook it for an edib...