Interpretation By Lee Jeffries "homeless" - Oil On Paper

another watercolour sketch from our days at the beach in frontignan :) 

feeling blue and inspired by the beautiful ink works of @ullathynell

watercolour on paper

Hippos vs. Cows  This semester at uni I got to work on a topic completely new to me and so exciting - hippos! Who would have thought that hippos are actually quite the ecosystem engineers? The amount of organic matter these herbivores transport to rives and lakes is quite impressive, and the fact that their population is in danger is really not good news for the aquatic food chain and everybody who depends on it. The simultaneous explosion of cattle herds in Africa is another factor that complicates the matter - considering only the cows’ methane emissions really misses a large part of the picture! I think its so fascinating to see how the theoretical science you study as a student finally gets applied and produces meaningful data in the field - in this case people used C and N isotopic data to trace hippo/cow input into and along the food chain. 

My best friend and I also traveled to China this summer :) This is a sketch I made on our trip to the Great Wall, we hiked from the Mutianyu section towards the wilder part in Jiankou. It was super hot and tiring but the views were incredible and absolutely worth it! We both really loved the day, it's definitely one of those memories that you keep forever. 

remembering my summer-internship-time at the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-Sur-Mer

lost direction.

when it seems like everything is grey and dull - remember to let the colours in. The world is beautiful and so are you; happy holidays everyone! 

HEY JUDE! Ceratias tentaculatus 

original illustration in “Fishes of the Southern Ocean”

“The right thing to do, is nothing, the place, a place of concealment, and the time, as often as possible.” (Tony Cook, The Biology of Terrestrial Mollusks)