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For #PollinatorWeek here’s 1 of a series of my prints about leaf cutter bees, each unique. These prints are both about, & a sort of collaboration with leaf cutter bees! These small, but multifarious native bees are important pollinators, who make nests for their babies using small telltale half-moon pieces they cut from leaves & petals. This work features 2 large linocuts of leaf cutter bees:
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Megachile relativa & Megachile brevis, made on collaged Japanese washi papers & cellophane to capture the colours in their bodies and wings. Each print has its own array of leaf & petal prints from leaves & petals used by leaf cutter bees from my garden. The plants used include raspberries, roses (leaves & petals), lily of the valley, lilac, lemon balm, ash, thicket creeper, round-leaved Crane's bill & more. Each print is 17" tall by 12.5" wide (43.2 cm by 31.8 cm).
I have one of these prints in my shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/1052880550/the-leaf-cutter-bees-print-with-lino