Jamie Wardrop

https://soundcloud.com/wardrop/bus-impro Impro jam with samples from Sri Lankan bus horns and radio

IN TO THE NIGHT I have always wanted to go a rainforest (a boyhood dream)..so Sinharaja national park was high on my list of Sri Lankan adventures.  If I am going to talk about it in my work I need to understand what it is to stand in one and bear witness. Most of the forests n Scotland have been degraded by human hand ( though there are some notable exceptions!) and this is a place that is under threat from the gradual encroachment of rice paddies, tea plantations and unregulated tourist development. The ecosystem goes right back to Gondwana land - the huge ancient supercontinent. I managed to convince my fellow artists to join me. We were not disappointed. We combined it with a trip to Udawalawa national park. We all left buzzing having seen every kind of plant and animal imaginable - tree crab, owl, viper, elephant, toucan, crocodile, mongoose,  sambhur dear, kangaroo lizard, peacocks, macaque & grey langar monkey, fruit bat, butterfly, 3 kind of giant eagles,

POEM   http://www.suramedura.com/

  I have become pretty obsessed about the road side signs on lamp posts advertising college courses. The colours and designs (often screen printed) - luminous, bright and very cool. I am keen on letting them influence visual designs in abstraction and spin them out in to animation and print.   Och I just love them. They are gorgeous.  http://www.suramedura.com/