Cath hodsman biography of abraham james

Cath Hodsman is a skilled and widely acknowledged British wildlife artist, specialising in entomology.

I currently work in Sussex as a freelance entomologist, ecologist and botanist and specialise in nature reserve and rewilding management advice.

She is also one of the most technically accomplished and accurate natural history artists, who counts The Natural History Museum, London amongst her many prestigious clients. Biology and Art — disciplines that are at opposing ends of the academic spectrum. In fact, in certain situations, the two are not only a lot closer than you might think, but they are virtually symbiotic.

I am an artist, but the approach I adopt with my art also makes me a biologist — or an entomologist, to be precise. My passion is insects. To me, they are the most fascinating, diverse, quirky, strong, beautiful group of animals on Earth. In addition, they are the biggest and arguably, the most important group. You could take any group of animals and blast them into outer space and the world would go along fairly happily.

Do the same thing to insects and you would have, at best, a huge amount of trouble and, at worst, no world at all. They spend much of their time flying, scurrying or burrowing away from us. We spend much of our time spraying, stamping, or screaming and running away from them. I think that a lot of this fear comes from ignorance.

We think that just because something is striped it must be a bee — that is wrong. We think that everything that buzzes must be a bee — that is wrong. We think that all bees sting — that is wrong. Other people, equally misguided, think that if something is small then it must be insignificant.