Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About Pollinators In Peril
Beekeeping in Britain by
Andrew
Tyzack
Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About
Pollinators In Peril
Andrew
Tyzack and Debbie
Grice Found
Special Gallery To Celebrate Role Of Bees In Our
Lives
Written By Todd Wilkinson
As artists
who together operate The Land Gallery
in England in East
Yorkshire, they decided to do something about it:
Put out a call to other artists and open a virtual
gallery with procceds from the sale of artwork going
to the cause of pollinator conservation. Tyzack has
a particular insight into the problem, which in many
parts of the globe has manifested itself as Colony
Collapse Disorder. Outbreaks of CCD have been blamed
on a virulent combination of mites and a fungus
killing honey bees with weakened immune systems
potentially caused by exposure to pesticides. Loss
of habitat also is taking a serious toll on wild
bees, with several species in the U.S. now
imperiled.
Tyzack himself is a third-generation beekeeper, a
practitioner of the apiary arts, husbanding his
domestic honey hives to make sweet honey.
More and more, artists are stepping forward to aid in
the cause of conservation. This effort on behalf of
pollinators is similar to one led by biologist Kerry
Kriger who founded Save The Frogs and has sponsored an
art contest that is open to painters of all ages.
Bees in Art celebrates Hymenoptera, the order of insect
that encompasses honey bees, bumblebees and related
species. He said that he and Grice welcome artists in
North America to contact him if they are interested in
supporting bee conservation by making works available
for sale...
For complete article please visit The Wildlife Art
Journal.