Picture Framing on Dartmoor: UK
In October 2020 as the Pandemic raged, a storm took down three of our large English Oak Trees on Dartmoor, England. The biggest fell taking the other two as it crashed to the ground.
2020 was a 'Mast Year' for English Oak meaning the species produced an extreme amount of acorns, a phenomena occurring every 5 to 10 years or so. As the tree's go all out in an effort to dominate they suffer weakness and recover slowly, a theory as to what happened when the storm in question became to much.
Fast forward to 2022 and we're 'planking' the timber to season for 24 months after which it will begin the finishing process at the studio in Mayfair to become hardwood frame mouldings to surround art from a project I will shoot in the meantime starting in Dartmoor's 'Wistman's Woods' and moving on to document Britain's Finest Woodland and Forrest.
As a footnote I planted hundreds of acorns from the fallen trees. Fast forward another 100 years or so and I very much hope our future residents will be holding 'Oak Fest' here on our hill in Devon. (The Rolling Stones headlining ... they'll still be here).