Overleaf - Hardcover

Ogilvy, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842464914 ISBN 13: 9781842464915

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014

Synopsis

Leaves live a thankless life. They go unnoticed while providing shade and cleaning the air, and are often the subject of our groans and grumbles in the fall while being raked away. Outside of brief odes to colorful autumn foliage, their quiet, everyday beauty is usually unsung.

Overleaf is an extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree. It features over seventy brilliantly rendered studies of the leaves of thirty-seven tree species found across North America and Europe. Susan Ogilvy’s paintings are lovely and uncluttered, resembling real-life pressings captured between the pages. The artwork is accompanied by Richard Ogilvy’s thought-provoking text, which provides a vignette for each tree that explores its particular relationship with the environment, its style of growth, the history and mythology surrounding it, and the uses that birds, insects, and humans make of it. He reflects on the detailed complexity of our woodlands and forests and thoughtfully explores our place among them. Just as individual leaves create a cohesive shade, the range of these portraits provides a compelling vision of our relationship with trees. Overleaf is a thoughtful collection that will have readers taking a second look at the world above. 

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Ogilvy lives in Scotland, where he works as a forester and has had a hand in planting more than 150 million trees. Susan Ogilvy is a painter living in England. Her work has been shown in the Smithsonian Institution, Ashmolean Museum, and Royal Horticultural Society. 

Review:

“Thinking to glance at a sample of the contents, I ended up, an hour later, having studied every lovely print and read every word.”  (Matthew Parris, columnist, Times (UK) and Spectator)

"Overleaf by Richard and Susan Ogilvy pays homage to the tree in a series of botanical illustrations and fascinating, fact-filled descriptions." (Country & Town House)

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1842464914
• ISBN 13: 9781842464915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Ogilvy Susan