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Piers Trehane
Remembering Piers Trehane
Last March marked the 10 years since the death of Piers...
Roderick Cameron | Apr 13, 2021
Quercus Propagation Manual Cover
A Propagation Manual for Quercus—in Spanish
A new publication fills a void.
Roderick Cameron | Feb 13, 2021
Emory oak near Young, Arizona © Nanebah Lyndon
Emory Oak Collaborative Tribal Restoration Initiative
Emory oak acorns are a critically important commodity for...
Website Editor | Feb 12, 2021

Plant Focus

Quercus texana New Madrid acorn
Cultivar Close-Up: Quercus ‘New Madrid’, Sorting Out the Confusion
Disentangling the cultivar published as Quercus texana ‘New Madrid’
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Oak Artists

Oak-Themed Platinum Proof Coins

By Website Editor | February 12, 2021
2021 Platinum Proof coin

A new five-year series of US Mint coins is based on the lifecycle of the oak

My Second Book

By Keiko Tokunaga | December 12, 2020
Keiko Tokunaga's second book

Keiko Tokunaga's second book, “Illustrated Flora of Fagaceae Trees of the World”, was published in November 2020.

Illustrated Oaks of the World

By David More | April 8, 2020
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David More shares some of his magnificent illustrations of oaks, part of a work-​​in-progress.

Harriet Blum's Live Oaks

By Roderick Cameron | July 16, 2017
Fiarchild Oak

The subject of the latest addition to our Oak Artist series is Harriet Blum, whose work straddles the media of photography and painting: her idiosyncratic technique involves infrared film photography and hand-coloring with transparent oils and pencils.

Quercus Quest – My Ongoing Journey With Louisiana Live Oaks

By William Guion | August 1, 2016
Oak in fog

If I wanted to make stronger, more meaningful images, I should pick something that I love and photograph it again and again: “Follow what your heart is drawn to,” he said, “and in time, your feelings will begin to show though in your work.”

Kyle Spradley's Photographs of the McBaine Bur Oak

By Ryan Russell | December 2, 2015
The McBaine Bur Oak - © Kyle Spradley

Photographer Kyle Spradley has taken portraits of "The Big Tree" over the course of almost a decade, in every season and weather condition.

Beth Moon's Portraits of Oaks

By Roderick Cameron | May 31, 2015
The Queen Elizabeth Oak by Beth Moon

Continuing our series Oak Artists, we look at portraits of ancient English oaks by California-based photographer Beth Moon.

Andrea Jones: Capturing the Splendor of Oaks

By Roderick Cameron | November 29, 2014
Quercus lobata, San Marcos Pass Rd., Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Andrea Jones is one of the world's foremost garden photographers, whose pictures have appeared in many books, magazines and newspapers worldwide. She kindly agreed to an email interview which focused exclusively on her experience photographing oaks, adding another chapter to our series on oak artists.

Gustaf Emanuelsson: Oak Photographer

By Roderick Cameron | August 17, 2014
© Gustaf Emanuelsson

Latest in our series on Oak Artists is an interview with Swedish photographer Gustaf Emanuelsson, whose photos of the Oak of Kvill were featured in our reposting of Stefan Foconi’s article. Gustaf is working on a long term project documenting the giant trees of Sweden, most of which are oaks

Christine Battle: Botanical Illustrator

By Roderick Cameron | May 20, 2014
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IOS member Christine Battle has always had an interest in botanical art. Though she was only 14 when she was first smitten by a print of Albrecht Dürer’s watercolor Das große Rasenstück (Great Piece of Turf), it wasn’t till almost four decades later that she began painting plants, after receiving a birthday present of a two-day botanical art drawing course in 2006.

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