Inspiration, works in progress and final pieces from my Instagram

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View fullsize Our show opens 21st November and I’m really looking forward to showing my new work. Thanks @oldtreebrewery for the sponsorship, ensuring we have delicious botanical brews of kombucha and beer foraged from garden forests, as well as my Wild and
View fullsize Samhain. Summer is over and there are new beginnings. A time to honour darkness. What’s gone remains, nourishing what’s coming. Soil, made of everything that’s been. • #increasephotosynthesis #foodsovereignty #bodysovereignty
View fullsize I’m really pleased to share the new shop on my website. It features new work, both big and small, for outdoors and interiors www.karenfrancesca.com Check it out! Thanks to @taniaesmith for her amazing work on the website build. • #ceram
View fullsize Some new work celebrating trees and plants and exploring how deeply they affect our lives. Among my favourites is Araucaria araucana a wonderful evergreen tree, growing up to 40m and dating back to ancient prehistoric times- it is often called a livi
View fullsize ‘The creation of a permaculture plot on any scale, from a town patio to a large rural area, is a fascinating and satisfying task. It is a way of restoring the intimate relationship with nature, with Mother Earth, with Gaia, for which every huma
View fullsize Our Forest Garden as Samhain approaches. It’s a wild place full of food, medicine and magic, whose energy increases as the veil thins between worlds. The earth is a closed loop biological system of radical connectivity. Let’s enjoy it
View fullsize Lovely to be doing some more work on our mandrake mosaic for @whitehawkcommunityfoodproject It’s intricate work with black and white cinca tiles, contrasted with a bright fruity border. Thanks to everyone helping to make it. The bid to survive
View fullsize Great to be working in this beautiful place, by the chalk river @thewildlifetrusts @lewesrailwayland We’ve been making ceramic tiles in groups with the local community which will be part of the artwork for the wellhead. Lovely to have Barbara
View fullsize Two things at once. Harvesting and drying at this time of year. Abundance and decline sit side by side • #increasephotosynthesis #enclosures #coup #home #habitat #biophilia #wildlife #organic #communityagriculture #compost #brightonartist #col
View fullsize Are we really to be ‘carbon taxed on our sighs’ @pauricwrites to achieve ‘Net 0’ while corporations destroy the last of any natural habitat on earth for the creation of ‘renewable energy’ and dead- end, industrial
View fullsize Great to get started on this wonderful mandrake at the beautiful @whitehawkcommunityfoodproject with a lovely group of women over the weekend, organised by @cronegarden Thanks to @atmstreetart for the fantastic drawing for us to mosaic. This is an
View fullsize Great to have work featured in this fantastic new London Street Art Guide by Giulia Blocal Riva. • #streetart #habitat #biophilia #streetarteverywhere #wildlife #organic #flowers #pollon #communityagriculture #compost #chlorophyll #brightonarti
View fullsize Great to spend some time @mosaichousechiswick @the_treatment_rooms_collective tending the garden now full of edible herbs and historical mosaics. Also making some new clay and mosaic work and firing all sorts thanks to @carriereichardt. Test firing o
View fullsize A bouquet of sorrel. When there’s more harvesting than weeding, there can be relaxation in the garden. The rain helps too.. • #home #nest #habitat #biophilia #wildlife #birdsong #organic #flowers #pollon #communityagriculture #compost #chl
View fullsize Lovely to be invited to facilitate making new ceramic work with Whitehawk Community Food Project. Our plan is to transform the hut into a beautiful artwork. It stands at the centre of this growers’ land, on top of the hill in Brighton. Tickets
View fullsize Life during war time. How to resist, stay sane and feel hope that justice, restoration and healing is possible? That armies of apparent dominance do fall. That systems of oppression are overcome. Marinating ideas and finding patterns whilst gardeni
View fullsize Nature is a closed loop system. There is no waste. Living based systems have been traded for non-living based systems, where input is always greater than output, producing massive waste streams, on multiple levels. That’s how we got here. &lsqu
View fullsize A garden full of flowers; colours, scents and flavours. Not only that, the atmosphere created and the constant movement of insects all contributes to a Hum of Life that feels ecstatic and cosmic. Tech will never replicate, replace or sustain our rela