Wylde Oake Artistry
Charcoal and Pastel Art
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My work currently seeks to explore and question our human perception of the fungal kingdom through its situating often within, but not exclusively, the Disrupted Realism movement.
My working process often incorporates photographic, or sketched, documentation, sound recordings and personal experiences that speak of physical interactions, of questioning the toxicity and taxonomy of fungi, and of close observation either within nature or within my studio thus creating pieces that are deeply personal and subjective renditions of the world in which we coexist. The resulting intricately worked soft pastel/pastel pencil, or occasionally mixed media, artworks vary from softly rendered botanical representations of fungal (mushrooms) forms through to their depiction within, and as a vital living part of, woodland or urban ecosystems .



