Some Fern

Kerry Morrison – Ormandy Intakes – 1997

Photograph taken 2004

Material: Wood

Trail: Grizedale Tarn Trail

Theme: Nature

Form: Realism

Maps Featured on: 1998 – 2020

Status: Still in situ, November 2021

Quote from the Artist: “So often when we walk we see everything around us, but all too often it is an overview, a visual assumption. We see the panorama; the trees, but rarely the individual tree, the grass but not the blades. The philosophy behind my work is to draw attention to the singular, that which we see on mass but rarely take time to look at closely.”

Up on Grizedale Tarn trail at the large U bend in the path. Placed on a rocky outcrop sits this large carved wooden fern. If you go around the back of the artwork you can see the detail on the fronds, tiny spores growing have been carved. This inspired her other work Spores on the Ridding Wood Trail.

Photograph taken 2007

Photograph taken December 2013

Photograph taken June 2019

No longer easy to spot the trees have now grown up and almost obscured the ferns from the path, it could do with a waymaker. Now it can only be found by noticing the small path that leads up to it.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale – Spores – 1997

Page Last Updated April 2020