Our aim is to highlight how human presence places an extraneous burden on our planet, we need to respect our earth with all its native species.  The world's population has doubled since 1970, threatening 1m species with extinction.

Since 1980 more than half the increase in food production has been at the expense of intact forests.  We are producing a mountain of waste and plastic pollution has increased ten-fold.  Live wild life trade increases the chances that virus can jump from one species to another and ultimately from animals to humans.  Some are now biting back (Bat Conservation Trust).

 Marylin Orpin:

I am an environmental artist with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Creative Arts at Canterbury.  Up until now my main focus has been on beach combing and collecting plastic to make my artwork but during the Covid 19 outbreak and self isolation I have ruminated…