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Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Earth Day

Earth Day 2015 - Landscape destroyed by Fracking & Mudslides - Artwork by UK artist Ingrid Sylvestre

Let's work together to honour & celebrate our planet and its beautiful landscapes instead of destroying it.

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Phoenix C.: AKA Ingrid Sylvestre. Durham artist North East UK. Multimedia creative professional working in visual arts, events entertainment caricatures and silhouettes, design, writing and music. The land is a constant source of inspiration, most especially the sylvan and gardens.

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Cactus Mural for Durham University Botanic Garden

Cactus Mural for Durham University Botanic Garden

Please click on image to go to images of finished mural.

Encircling the Earth

Encircling the Earth

Ink & Watercolour

Copyright

All artwork, text and photographs are copyright Ingrid Sylvestre. Glamicatures TM, Cheekicatures TM and Spookicatures TM are all trademarks of Ingrid Sylvestre.

Silhouettes by Ingrid Sylvestre - click to view

Silhouettes by Ingrid Sylvestre - click to view

Hand cut silhouettes at events

Wedding Entertainment

Wedding Entertainment

Glamicatures by Ingrid Sylvestre - click to view

Party caricatures that make you look good!

Ingrid Sylvestre Art

Fine Art
English Landscape Paintings
Sylvan Paintings
Garden Paintings
Portrait Painting
Animal Portraits
Fine Line Illustrations
Children's Story Illustration
Greeting Card Design
Giraffe Greeting Cards
3D Pop up Greeting Cards
Caricatures
On-the-Spot Event Caricatures
Live Event Painting
Design
Writing
Songwriting
Storytelling
Entertainment
Speaking engagements
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Stick your neck out for your dreams!

The Dreaming Fields of Grey Towers Farm

The Dreaming Fields of Grey Towers Farm

Watercolour & Oil Pastel

Ethereal light at Grey Towers, Nunthorpe

Ethereal light at Grey Towers, Nunthorpe

Watercolour

Edge of Glory - the Cleveland Hills

Watercolour and Ink

The Wonderful Hedges

The Wonderful Hedges

Watercolour Resist

Conifer moon

Conifer moon

Watercolour Resist

Solidago Sunlight

Solidago Sunlight

Watercolour

Silver Senecio & Baggesen's Gold

Silver Senecio & Baggesen's Gold

Watercolour

Raph G. Neckmann's Ramblings - the blog of a giraffe!

Please click on above image to visit Raph's blog in chronological order.

Nextra-terrestrial - Stand Tall for Giraffes at Colchester Zoo

Please click on image to visit the blog of Nextra-terrestrial the intergalactic giraffe!

Ingrid Sylvestre artwork

Ingrid Sylvestre artwork

Fracking - New Storylines for Living with Environmental Change - Durham University

Giraffe Greeting Cards

Available for Sale! Please click on image to view all Ingrid's cards.

Other blogs by Ingrid

Ingrid Sylvestre

Home - ******* [image: North East Artist Ingrid SylvestreRomantic English Landscape Paintings Ingrid Sylvestre Artist UK The Dreaming Fields] The Dreaming Fields...
Ingrid Sylvestre Caricatures & Cartoons

North Yorkshire Caricaturist Ingrid Sylvestre, Wedding Caricatures, Party Caricatures, Corporate Events, Proms, Conferences, Trade Shows , Awards Ceremonies, Launches, Entertainment Ideas, Wedding Entertainment, Parties, Proms and Corporate Events UK: North Yorkshire, York, Harrogate, Ripon, Northallerton, Thirsk, Stokesley, Great Ayton, Guisborough, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Richmond, Helmsley, Malton, Pickering - ***** *Glamicatures - flattering fun caricatures by Ingrid Sylvestre North Yorkshire, Harrogate, Northallerton, Knaresborough, Ripon, York, Thirsk, Easing...
Ingrid Sylvestre News & Events

'Glamicatures' caricatures at a fabulous wedding! - Ingrid recently had the pleasure of being the caricaturist at the wedding of Hannah & David at Lumley Castle Hotel in County Durham You can view a selecti...
Ingrid Sylvestre Wedding Entertainment - Silhouettes & Caricatures

North Yorkshire Entertainment - Wedding & Party Entertainment Ideas: Glamicature Caricatures & Silhouettes - Ingrid Sylvestre - ***** [image: Wedding Entertainment ideas North East UK Wedding Caricatures Party Caricatures Conference Caricatures Christmas Party Caricatures Wedding i...
Raph G. Neckmann's Ramblings

The Escape of a Giraffe Accountant! - [image: Raph G Neckmann The Escape of a Giraffe Accountant by UK Giraffe Artist Ingrid Sylvestre] (My first ever blog entry!) After seventeen years of w...

Caricaturist & Portrait painter throughout North East and UK.

Caricaturist & Portrait painter throughout North East and UK.

Ingrid Sylvestre

caricaturist at parties, weddings & special events

caricaturist at parties, weddings & special events

Ingrid Sylvestre with Spencer Matthews & Hugo Taylor of Made in Chelsea, and their caricatures,

Mural in Progress

Mural in Progress

Please click on image to go to beginning of Cactus Mural project.

Links to images: Cactus Mural, Botanic Garden Durham University

001 The mural boards being gessoed
002 The sketch plan
003 First layer of mural
004 The emerging of the Cacti!
005 More detail
006 Further development
007 Close up a
008 Close up b
008 Completed Cactus Mural

Mural in Cactus House, University of Durham Botanic Garden

Mural in Cactus House, University of Durham Botanic Garden

Please click on image to go to link for University of Durham Botanic Garden.

A visitor from Camelopardalis constellation

A visitor from Camelopardalis constellation

Secret Intergalactic Cacti

Secret Intergalactic Cacti

The Portal to Camelopardalis Constellation

Ingrid Sylvestre Caricatures & Glamicatures

Ingrid Sylvestre Caricatures & Glamicatures

Please click on the above image to visit Ingrid's Caricatures site.

Silhouette Cutting at Events by Ingrid Sylvestre

Silhouette Cutting at Events by Ingrid Sylvestre

Please click on the above image to visit Ingrid's silhouettes site

Highcliffe from Guisborough Forest

Highcliffe from Guisborough Forest

Derwent Drawing Pencil

Spring Tree Dance

Spring Tree Dance

Watercolour & Ink

Forevermore

Mixed Media

Snowdrops

Snowdrops

Watercolour

Enchanted with Existence Watercolour

Enchanted with Existence Watercolour

Ingrid Sylvestre Interpretive Panels

Please click on the above image to view Ingrid's wildlife illustrations for Interpretive Panels.

Enchanted with Existence sketch-notes

Enchanted with Existence sketch-notes

Enchanted with Existence Watercolour

Enchanted with Existence Watercolour

Architectural Visualisation

Architectural Visualisation

Barns conversions

Willow Barn

Willow Barn

Architectural visualisation - Barns conversion

Brockwell Barn

Brockwell Barn

Architectural visualisation - Barns conversion

South Barn

Architectural visualisation - Barns conversion

River Barn

Architectural visualisation - Barns Conversion

Labels

Links to info images from New Storylines for Living with Environmental Change exhibition

Conversation of the Trees painting
Enchanted with Existence exhibition
Enchanted with Existence Exhibition - Artist Profile
Enchanted with Existence Exhibition - Foreword
Gifts

View to Cleveland Hills

View to Cleveland Hills

Watercolour

Autumn Light

Sylvan Season's Greetings

Poem

Poem

Dramatic Sky

Dramatic Sky

Watercolour

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Orchard Design

Watercolour

Cherry Blossom

Cherry Blossom

Acrylic

Dingle Rock Garden, Grey Towers

Dingle Rock Garden, Grey Towers

Watercolour & Oil Pastel

Grey Towers Lake

Grey Towers Lake

Watercolour

Dawn Lake Grey Towers

Dawn Lake Grey Towers

Watercolour

Gateway to the Wood

Gateway to the Wood

Mixed Media

Ingrid Sylvestre giraffe hair

Ingrid Sylvestre giraffe hair

Applying giraffe markings to hair!

Ingrid Sylvestre completed giraffe design in hair!

Ingrid Sylvestre completed giraffe design in hair!

Giraffe Mural Painting for Kid's room 2011

Giraffe Mural Painting for Kid's room 2011

Client commission

Mural Durham Market

Mural Durham Market

Commissioned Giraffe Portrait of Mayor of Durham

Commissioned Giraffe Portrait of Mayor of Durham

Please click on image to view

Durham Market Mural

Durham Market Mural

Recording songs and stories

Recording songs and stories

Please click on image to go to podcast at StoryPhones

A generous brew of tea ...

A generous brew of tea ...

Click on image to sing along to a Tea Shanty!

Wedding Entertainment North East

Wedding Entertainment North East

Ingrid Sylvestre Caricatures

Please click on above image to visit Ingrid's Caricatures site.

Hallowe'en events

Hallowe'en events

Ingrid Syvlestre as Caricaturist & Face Painter for Hallowe'en Event

Giraffes on Ice - Durham River 2011

Giraffes on Ice - Durham River 2011

Watercolour

3D pop-up Christmas Card: Woodland Xmas Tree

3D pop-up Christmas Card: Woodland Xmas Tree

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

Winter Wildlife 3D pop-up Christmas Card: Fox

Winter Wildlife 3D pop-up Christmas Card: Fox

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

Winter Wildlife 3D Christmas Card: Squirrel

Winter Wildlife 3D Christmas Card: Squirrel

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

3D Season's Greetings Card: Robin on Spade

3D Season's Greetings Card: Robin on Spade

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

3D pop-up Christmas Card: Woodland Xmas Eve

3D pop-up Christmas Card: Woodland Xmas Eve

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

Winter Wildlife 3D Christmas Card: Swan

Winter Wildlife 3D Christmas Card: Swan

Please click on image to view cards by Ingrid Sylvestre

Emerging Hosta

Emerging Hosta

Pastel

Narcissus sylvestris Giraffodil

Narcissus sylvestris Giraffodil

Please click on image for the provenance of this plant.

Moonlit Daffodils at Thorp Perrow Arboretum

Moonlit Daffodils at Thorp Perrow Arboretum

Monument at Thorp Perrow Arboretum

Monument at Thorp Perrow Arboretum

Garden by Night

Garden by Night

Watercolour, Ink & Gouache

Garden by Day

Garden by Day

Watercolour, Ink & Gouache

The Long Hedge

The Long Hedge

Watercolour, Ink & Gouache

Sunlight in a Secret Garden

Sunlight in a Secret Garden

Currently enjoying ...

Currently enjoying ...

Tomato soup with cheese!

Followers

The Government wants to sell off our forestry commission forests! This must be stopped.

The Government wants to sell off our forestry commission forests! This must be stopped.

Please visit links below image for petition and regular info updates.

1 Link to petition to save our forests!
2 Save Our Forests site
3 Save Our Woods site
4 Save Britain's Forests site
5 Info from Forestry Commission
6 Interactive map showing campaigns

'Of Forests and Men'

This beautiful and moving short film is a real wake-up call! Please click here to view it.

Moon over the Circular Garden

Barn at the Edge of the Wood

Fields at Grey Towers Farm Lane

Under threat of development! Please click on image for information.

Ingrid Sylvestre Grey Towers Art

Please click on image above to see Grey Towers paintings by Ingrid.

The Round Walk

Autumn Lake

Garden & Plant Blogs I like to read

greentapestry

IAVOM ~ 'Baby Love'
1 week ago
Plant Whatever Brings You Joy

Love Affair with a Grasshopper
9 months ago
Our French garden in the beautiful Dordogne

Prize Truffle
4 years ago
Best in Bloom Today

Bulbs in Crates
4 years ago
Does Everything Grow Better in My Neighbor's Yard?

How Are We Nearing Mid-August, 2019?
5 years ago
The Garden Faerie

Чем полезна горчица?
8 years ago
Bay Area Tendrils

Revisiting the Blue Poppy
8 years ago
A Gardener in Progress

I'm still here!
9 years ago
KeeWee's Garden

What shall I eat first?
10 years ago
Serendipitous Garden

Sure, winters are tough...
10 years ago
SILVERTREEDAZE

POST-BELLUM POPPYCOCK
11 years ago
Water When Dry

Time To Say Goodbye
11 years ago
A Desert Observer

...bring May flowers
12 years ago
Weed Whackin' Wenches

Neglected Sorrel
13 years ago
Sabino Canyon

Yellow thru the Year
15 years ago
Designing in the Desert

Best Garden Blog in Arizona?
15 years ago
Roofs & Rambles
Garden Muse
www.blackpitts.co.uk
A Hocking Hill's Garden

Other Great Blogs I like to Read

The Weaver of Grass

Final
5 months ago
Visual Norway

1 – 2 – 3 in Stockholm
7 years ago
The Solitary Walker

Beachscape
7 years ago
Yes it's TOTALFECKINEEJIT

8 years ago
Barbara Martin

Finding the Right Background
8 years ago
A Shot of England

Minecraft Achievements Guide: How to Earn All the Awards in Minecraft
8 years ago
BENCHES ON MY WAY...

Not alone
9 years ago
Visual Norway

Goodbye Blogger - Welcome WordPress
10 years ago
Natures Whispers

13 years ago
More about the song - rambling with Rachel Fox

New direction
13 years ago
For the Love Of Benches Continued . . .

Another long beautiful bench at Clackamas Town Center
14 years ago

Reclining Muse

Reclining Muse

Amuse

Amuse

Sylvan Mews

Sylvan Mews

Heart-shrub

Sylvan Mews

Sylvan Mews

Heart of the Woods

Quercus ilex

Quercus ilex

Ingrid Sylvestre Sylvan Art

Please click on image above to see Sylvan paintings by Ingrid.

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Victoria Amazonica

Victoria Amazonica

Victoria Amazonica opening

Victoria Amazonica opening

Leaf of Victoria Amazonica

Leaf of Victoria Amazonica

Spring Birches

Spring Birches

Prunus Serrula

Prunus Serrula

Ingrid Sylvestre Art

Goldheart Ivy

Goldheart Ivy

Please click on image for link to Tree Appeal

This Year's Icicles 2010

This Year's Icicles 2010

Currently up to approx 5 ft!

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Ingrid Sylvestre, Durham, North East UK; Fine Artist, Portrait Painter, Caricaturist, Live Event Painter, Designer, Writer, Songwriter, Storyteller & Speaker. Internationally known for her work. She has exhibited widely in public & private museums & galleries, and undertakes a variety of commissions. Her 'on-the-spot' caricatures are popular at weddings, parties & corporate events. Her illustrated stories featuring the Neckmann giraffe family are beloved around the world.