Sustainability
Miranda Kerr
Our business is called Wylde Oake Artistry - it is named after 2 ancient oak trees, one in my home town of Plymouth and the other here in Derbyshire but whose roots go back literally hundreds of years and who are intricately intwined by, and sustained by, Suzanne Simard's 'wood wide web'. I question whether we should look to interspecies symbiotic relations to understand mutually beneficial methodologies of sustaining life which at the moment we, as an individual species, is in grave danger of obliterating. As Arron Wood states:
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"Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever."
As an art practice whose specialism is fungi, and nature as a wider subject, I feel we have a responsibility to work sustainably. 95% of the work I do is with pastels and pastel pencils that are known to be vegan friendly with no animal products or animal testing - the only pencils remaining are being phased out and not replaced so that by the summer of 2026 the work is 100% plant based materials including paper: I work soley on Clairefontaine Pastelmat paper which is PEFC certified from sourced, recyclable materials and 100% natural. Our focus on materials also extends to extending our sustainability targets to increase usage of biodegradable packaging, other artist materials, our personal/work recycling capabilitiies and also just our research methodologies - the simple act of re-adding Evernote instead of printing pages to read is just one small change. These ongoing changes and refinements are being done in accordance with the frameworks set by the Climate Change Coalition who we have recently joined along with the Land Art Agency.
Furthermore, I have long practiced wildlife friendly garden which is also relevant to our art practice is both the outdoor space and the greenhouse is my outdoor studio thus reducing electricity and cleaning costs/impact. Within sustainability/ecological friendly frameworks I/we have over the years stopped all usage of insecticides, reduced to now stopped using fungicides and continue to explore differing methods of slug prevention which in combination with two small ponds as meant the garden has now developed its own mini ecosystem. Birds, bees, insects, squirrels and on occasions hedgehogs are all welcome and provide both human amusement and the natural cycle of predation - we even regularly have at least one friendly solo wasp and usually at least several resident frogs which will at some point in 2026 make their appearance in my art! Sustainable practice for WOA did not start in the studio but in nature itself.
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