‘BAOBAB’
This piece of artwork was commissioned by Yeo Valley in celebration of the amazing Baobab tree. The purpose of the artwork was to appear on the pack design for a special, artist edition yoghurt marking the collaboration between Yeo Valley, The Organic Herb Trading Company and B’Ayoba a local company in Zimbabwe that employs local people to farm wild Baobab fruit.
“When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity”
Baobabs, Guinea Fowl Feathers and seed pods from Zimbabwe
A visit to The Organic Herb Trading Company to meet Gus from B'Ayoba and Mike from OHTC.
Photograph by Jason Ingram
Baobab Artwork
‘BAOBAB’
Andansonia digitata
This piece of artwork was commissioned by Yeo Valley in celebration of the amazing Baobab tree. The purpose of the artwork was to appear on the pack design for a special, artist edition yoghurt marking the collaboration between Yeo Valley, The Organic Herb Trading Company and B’Ayoba a local company in Zimbabwe that employs local people to farm wild Baobab fruit. The mighty Baobab tree is known as ‘the tree of life’ and its fantastic, waxy, white flowers are pollinated by fruit bats!
The original artwork and preliminary drawings have been created using natural, raw materials found in the Yeo Valley and in Zimbabwe. These include Somerset willow charcoal, Mendip ochres, mud from Zimbabwe and a natural dye created from seed pods found near to where the Baobab grows.
This project celebrates the amazing Baobab tree and the coming together of two different communities in a way that finding a market for Baobab can benefit both the farmers in Africa and people in the uk who from consuming Yeo Valley Baobab & Vanilla yoghurt can experience amazing health benefits. It was delicious!!!
Special artists edition Baobab yoghurt design made available as a print.
Celebrating bringing Baobab to the UK market.
Limited edition giclee print. Created onto an acid free, archival photo rag paper.
Edition: 1:75
Dimensions: 40 x 35.5cm, including a high quality off- white mount.
Hand signed and editioned
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Many thanks.
Baobab Print & Postcards
The Baobab artwork is available as a special, limited edition print to mark this occasion.
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This is a collection of the original preliminary drawings for the design that I created for Yeo Valley, artists edition Baobab yoghurt. This was to celebrate bringing this amazing natural product from Zimbabwe to the UK market. This special edition yoghurt was on the shelves for 3 months at the start of 2018.
Pack of 4 postcards each with a recycled brown envelope and tied as a bundle with natural twine.