Jack Fawdry Tatham is an artist and bee keeper based in London. He works with traditional printmaking techniques, drawing on to copper plates to produce highly detailed works on paper – such as our Build-a-Bee puppet. Here, he has combined his love of printmaking and bee keeping in a limited edition etching, showing the detailed …
Category archives: Art Commission
Natasha Clutterbuck
We commissioned local artist Natasha Clutterbuck to create a bee-friendly mural for the waiting room at Frome Railway Station – one of the oldest railway stations still in operation in Britain. She used a palette of charcoal, local mud and vegetable stains to provide colour to the plants and pollinators. How many pollinators can you …
HarpoArt
We worked with street artist HarpoArt to create this 17m-long, bee-themed mural that tells the story of pollination and pollinators. The mural covers a pedestrian bridge that crosses the railway line at Falmer Railway Station in East Sussex.
Charlotte Pearson, Scarcroft School
Charlotte Pearson of Scarcroft School, York won a competition to design a bee-friendly sculpture for our planter at Peterborough Railway Station in Cambridgeshire. The result, produced by Amalgam Modelmaking, features holes for solitary bees to nest in.
Amalgam Modelmaking
We worked with Amalgam Modelmaking to produce a 1.8m tall observation hive in the booking hall at Durham. Bees were installed in May 2019 and looked after by a local beekeeping group. Due to administrative changes at the stations, the hive was eventually removed and is now being used as an exhibition space for The …