Detail, 'cadel' capital and butterflies.
Detail, bas de page. The butterflies on the manuscript rare (clockwise from top left) Copper, Magpie moth, Short-tailed blue, Painted lady, Cleopatra, Comma, and Rock Grayling. Because I could.
Detail of 'parrot' tulip, a very rare and prized variety of tulip.
Detail of pear, showing the illusion of the stalk threaded through the page.
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Butterfly Manuscript
Commission for recreated medieval manuscript.
Based on the Mira Calligraphiae Moumenta, the last manuscript created in Europe. All the butterflies are common European species, and the plants have symbolic meanings forming a visual narrative; a very popular conceit in the sixteenth century.
Chinese Ink, liquid gold, silver gouache, body colour on archival parchmentine, 2014.
