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Jurassic Coast Map

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Map of the jurassic coast in Dorset, South England.
Natural pigments on paper, approx. 17" x 22"
Prints are like always available in my ETSY shop: www.etsy.com/shop/heliocyan?re…

This is the inner design for a gatefold sleeve of a vinyl record of a classical music project, which was recorded in the Abbey Road Studios. Commissioned by LUSH for their classical music album project which is turning the tales and myths around the old stone circles of their origin, Dorset, into music. I was asked to produce a cover which should look old, maybe Medieval/Renaissance drawn, like an old map mixed with botanical/natural history/mythical illustration. They liked the idea of “old, obscure, tea-stained”, mixed with the love to detail which my natural history drawings have.

LUSH has very high ethical and environmental standards, therefore I was asked to use only natural pigments for my artwork which I obtained from the Dorset coastline. All paints you can see here are pigments from stones, clay, minerals, earth, coal and chalk which I ground up and mixed with linseed oil and egg white, to use it like egg tempera in the old days. 

The coast in Dorset has an astonishing variety of different coloured cliffs, starting with dark grey, nearly black clay of Lyme Regis, all shades of brown when wandering further east the Jurassic coast towards Charmouth, bright orange in Burton Bradstock and West Bay, and bright white chalk at the Old Harry Rocks. And: fossils, fossils, fossils everywhere... The whole area is a protected heritage site, although collection fossils from the beach is fine.

© Claudia Hahn for LUSH 
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eine richtig tolle Karte!