• Illustration as polymath.
• Illustration, theoretical, contextual. An okay text. All rounders, thirst for knowledge. Joy in the finding out stage. Solve specific problems. Renaissance idea of explorers and adventurers and artists and poets, wealthy people would be all rounders of various subjects. Asking meaningful and purposeful questions
• Da Vinci's and Ruskins. Illustrators are scientists and critical thinkers and musicians and zoologists
• Beatrix Potter: We know her for her illustrated children's books but not her work with natural history. Natural forms. Groups and societies were only open to men. Women weren't open to the dialogue. Curiosity, attention to detail. Grounding and image making was in mycology. Fungi and algae. Considering taxonomy. Growth patterns, reproducing, spreading. Observing, studying. Spores. She was interested in reproduction of spores and theories. On the germination. Paper she wrote and accompanied by her images. London Society. Could only do that through her Uncle. Research presented on table and she couldn't be present as women couldn't be there. Her images are still produced in text books and journals today.
• Marie Neurath: German designer and scientist. Sociologist. Otto noira husband produced imagery in their society. Visual language. Based in Vienna, working at museum, met her husband there, renamed Social Economic Museum. Workshops. Civil War in Austria so they fled to the Netherlands. Engaging and graphically clear. Understanding. Complex. Simplistic forms. Nazis invaded the Netherlands and they settled in the UK in oxford. Otto died and Marie carried on until the 80s with children's books and how she could continue that foundation of research. Transforming that into an accessible format. Diagrammatic format.
• Simple question with simple visual language.
• Anna Atkins: Botanist and photographer. Engravings of shells and fossils. Main body of work - photographs of British algae (cyanotype) process of algae and seaweed forms in the south of the UK. Benefits of that process, categorising. Impressions and forms, through light. Considered to be the first book of scientific photographs. Photographic history - we often talk of the invention - but the context of it, the usage of it, the studies of it, gives it meaning. How we see images in a space. Contributions to scientific canon through the process of illustration - through patterns, thinking, observing. As illustrators, output was overlooked as they were women in a certain point of time.
• Processes and outlook has impacted and influenced how work and research is approached
• Rocks, seaweed, systems, little worlds, washing on and out twice a day. Rock falls. Edge of the Sea by Richard Carson.
• Quote. Studies. Sketchbooks
• Close looking, roots, systems, intertwined. Interest in systems. Collage, diagram.
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