Lusan-Leighis - Healing Plants - Coral Fade Bog cotton Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

"A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place" print

3x3" painting in 8x8" mount

Mounted and unframed

Lusan-Leighis - Healing Plants - Coral Fade Bog cotton Watercolour and ink on paperThis print is part of an ongoing study into the folk medicine of the Highlands. It explores the ways people turned to local plants for healing and reflects a time when knowledge of herbs and their protective, curative powers was woven into daily life. This print features, Crios Cu Chulainn, Meadowsweet which was traditionally used for treating fevers and headaches, Slan lus, Ribwort Plantain which was used on cuts and abrasions and was said to stem