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I'm part-way through reading Darlene Bungey's excellent biography of the celebrated Australian artist Arthur Boyd ''Arthur Boyd: A Life''. Despite initially being drawn to his art through hie darker, expressionistic works such as the ''Nebuchadnezzar'' series, Arthur Boyd's landscapes are, I think, wonderful. For the soils enthusiast, there is ...

A website just begging to be blogged on this site - a gallery in Seattle, USA called SOIL (the link is to their March 2007 exhibition, ''More Dirt''. See also August 2006, How Does Grass Grow, and probably others). I haven't worked out why it's called SOIL. But not to blog this would be negligent. 

Some artists use the colours and textures in soil to create startlingly beautiful artwork. There are a few examples of this around (in no particular order)...Taufik Hidayat in IndonesiaJan Lang from Nebraska USATeresa Murak, PolandYüksel Arslan, Turkey...and see this compilation by, of all people, NASA [added 2007.09.19]The image at right does not ...