Overleaf

An Illustrated Guide to Leaves

By: Richard Ogilvy, Susan Ogilvy

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Hardcover | 7 February 2014

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Leaves live a thankless life. They go unnoticed while providing shade and cleaning the air, and are often the subject of our groans and grumbles in the fall while being raked away. Outside of brief odes to colorful autumn foliage, their quiet, everyday beauty is usually unsung.

Overleaf is an extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree. It features over seventy brilliantly rendered studies of the leaves of thirty-seven tree species found across North America and Europe. Susan Ogilvy's paintings are lovely and uncluttered, resembling real-life pressings captured between the pages. The artwork is accompanied by Richard Ogilvy's thought-provoking text, which provides a vignette for each tree that explores its particular relationship with the environment, its style of growth, the history and mythology surrounding it, and the uses that birds, insects, and humans make of it. He reflects on the detailed complexity of our woodlands and forests and thoughtfully explores our place among them. Just as individual leaves create a cohesive shade, the range of these portraits provides a compelling vision of our relationship with trees. Overleaf is a thoughtful collection that will have readers taking a second look at the world above.

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Queen Victoria liked to fuel her bedroom fire with beech, the Scot's Pine feeds three-hundred plant-munching invertebrates and Bird Cherry bark was consumed as a stomach pain soothing jelly in the Middle Ages. Overleaf (Kew Publishing) by Richard and Susan Ogilvy pays homage to the tree in a series of botanical illustrations and fascinating, fact-filled descriptions. Susan Ogilvy's tackles 37 different trees found across Europe and North America in a series of delicate paintings of both sides of a leaf, while forester and gardener Richard Ogilvy writes a concise portrait to accompany each illustration. `I think that I shall never see / a poem as lovely as a tree', wrote Joyce Kilmer. We couldn't agree more. * Country and Tow House *

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