Monica Perez Vega

Contemporary Artist | My Life in Trees

Tag: ancient tree inventory

Church Yews of Shropshire

I had a lovely day yesterday visiting a few of the ancient Church Yews scattered across Shropshire with my friend (and ink-making mentor) Carolyn Morton. We began by consulting a lovely little artefact provided by ancient-yew.org that documents the Churchyard Yews of Shropshire through the paintings of Rev. Edward Williams, who painted the area’s parish

Queen Elizabeth I Oak

Yesterday I ventured out to West Sussex to meet an 800 year old (possibly 1,000 year old) sessile oak tree. The Queen Elizabeth I Oak is a large sessile oak in West Sussex, England. It has a girth of 12.5–12.8 metres (41–42 ft), and is about 800–1,000 years old. In June 2002, The Tree Council designated the Queen Elizabeth I Oak, one of