What's life to a lichen? | 2023

Original artwork by Sharon Field 

What’s life to a lichen?, graphite and watercolour, 15cm x 10.5cm (image),  2023. Framed size: 33cm x 33cm, off white mat and black frame.

Lichens are unlike any other organism on earth. Their structure is unique: a symbiosis of two organisms — a fungus and algae. Lichens are not plants, so they do not produce seeds. Lichens can survive in some of the most barren and severe regions of the world. They are amazing little things. SF