Keep the Colour (Card)

This piece highlights the decline in butterfly numbers in the UK since the early 1970s. We’ve lost 80% of our native butterflies. Each and every blanked-out butterfly on the painting represents the huge number that have been lost. The coloured butterflies represent the few - the 20% - which are left. Imagine a world without that colour.

Although this is a painting which is making a statement, it is also a bright and colourful piece of mixed media art which would look great in any space and would certainly brighten up a plain room.

Butterfly Conservation and Other Insects
Butterflies aren’t the only insect which has seen decline. Bees, beetles, ladybirds - all types of insects - have seen numbers drop to dangerously low levels. Dangerous because all things are interconnected. Birds and some mammals rely on insects and so on up the food chain. Insects perform a range of functions, apart from being part of the food chain, so what is being called an ‘insect armageddon’ is potentially catastrophic for all sorts of life on earth, perhaps even human life. Take out one level of the chain and potentially the whole lot collapses. It’s bad news, but there is good news. You can manage any green or garden space you have for wildlife: insects, including butterflies and bees, mammals and amphibians. You can grow butterfly and bee-friendly flowers, you can stop spraying insecticides, pesticides and the like and encourage a better balance of insect predators in your garden. You can join a conservation organisation, like the Butterfly Conservation Trust, you can campaign to protect nature and you can encourage other people to do the same. 10% of the sale price of this card will go to the Butterfly Trust. Check out their report here and see what you can do to help save butterflies and the environment.

Cards: Bright 400 gsm (Matte), FSC certified certified no INT-COC03944-212, blank inside for your own message, comes with recycled brown envelope inside biodegradable clear sleeve.

7” x 5” (18cm x 12.7cm)