The Highest Snag by DLKeur

The Trees series: simple, yet evocative works, created from 2001 on.

Rarely seen before now, many are newly released from my archives, and, over the months, I’ll release more of them as I bring their files out of storage. They are being released in both a limited edition of 75 and cheaper open edition. Some will also be the featured works in my 2009 Trees Calendar.

The Trees series celebrates the matriarch of the plant world — now documented as the oldest living things on Planet Earth. While proceeds from so much of my work supports various ecological conservation and preservation efforts around the globe, both animal and ecosystems, rain forest, old growth, coniferous, and boreal forest preservation, my The Trees series is specifically handled to expose the beauty of trees, “for” the trees.

So I treat my The Trees series differently than I do the majority of my work. Instead of selling them exclusively as limited editions, I also offer them as open edition prints in the hopes that the works inspire people to see the beauty of this wonderful living thing and to work to preserve their few remaining global ecosystems.

At the Edge of the Forest by DLKeur

These works are also availabe for one-time use, free of charge, to qualifying organizations and activities that work to preserve TREES.

After the Fire by DLKeur

A LITTLE ABOUT TREES & MY PERSPECTIVE

I want people to feel, see, and appreciate how important trees are, as well as how beautiful they are, individually, and as a group in a woods or forest, especially a deep forest — like trees are meant to live. For me, trees are conscious creatures that live and breathe. They grow in social groups, and communicate among themselves — scientifically documented, by the way.

Forest in the Mist by DLKeur

To my mind, trees are some of the most precious members of the plant kingdom we are blessed with, and they deserve to be revered, not simply seen as “renewable resources.” You can’t “replace” a 3000 year-old tree, not even a 300 year-old one. You can’t return the land to primeval forest once you’ve decimated the ecosystem. You can’t grow back “the woods” as it was, because you’ve changed the whole environment. A new ecosphere has to develop, and it takes decades upon decades to stabilize.

All That

Did you know that Spain used to be forested? Then Kind Ferdinand had the forests cut to build the Spanish Armada. And Spain became a hot, dry, dusty land where forests no longer grow — yes, even today. The same happened to the Cedars of Lebanon and the forests of Greece. In the U.S., our great boreal hardwood forests, likewise, fell to man’s axes. In fact, most all of our primeval forests are gone. Man cut them all down — giants forever gone, never to return.

Save the remaining trees. Please. Especially the old giants.

Deep Woods by DLKeur

“We need lumber,” you say?

Sure. But leave the wild. Turn wastelands and farm acreage long since turned idle into tree farms for lumber. Instead of subdividing barren acreage or abandoned industrial zones for more “new homes,” plant trees. Need a new residence? Fix a home that already stands lonely and in need of love and renewal. There are hoards of them about the cityscape and suburbs that are in need of refurbishing. And, please, push for the U.S. and the world to use alternatives to wood-pulp paper…like flax, corn sheaves, rice, hemp….

The Highest Snag by DLKeur

Save the trees.

And, remember, the money you spend on my prints gets returned to help try to preserve trees and the ecosphere — what’s left.

The Deepening by DLKeur

The Trees are offered as open edition prints, and as limited edition fine art prints, hand-signed, numbered, with remarque added, printed on the highest quality archival alpha-cellulose substrate using archival inks. You can find the open editions at: The Trees