Mike Collier
In collaboration with Tom Jordan
Fourteen Framed Pieces, each 36 cm in diameter
Digital Prints on 320gsm acid free art paper
Hand made frames
2024/5
This new work of fourteen pieces for the exhibition ’Seeds of Trees and Sounds of Mountains’ at AKC Gallery, takes us on a journey from the random pattern of seeds in a Petri dish to the constellations in the heavens. When making this work, Mike was deeply influenced by elements of Classical Persian Art and Poetry that describe the exquisite beauty of the night sky, the immensity of creation, and the insignificance of human life in the macrocosm of the universe. It reminds us of the transience of life and the eternal nature of the cosmos.
In a world facing a climate emergency, we need to celebrate wonder, and value nature as beautiful in and of itself – before it is destroyed by society’s greed and our extractive culture. In the gallery, this work is mounted on a coloured wall.
Works from left to right, top to bottom:

- The sound of a mountain stream under a clear night sky
- Evening Star: Snow Bunting on Ben Stack (with Venus)
- Seeds
- Aquarius
- Seeds
- Mountain Tremors: Nanga Parbat. A landslide in Greenland (2024) caused by climate change sent vibrations through the Earth, shaking the planet and generating seismic waves that travelled all around the globe, within an hour of the event. These tremors would have been felt even on the summit of Nanga Parbat (represented here), the tallest Himalayan Mountain in Pakistan.
- Redstart on Oak Tree, Pre-dawn
- Seeds
- Scorpio
- A Rain of Melody: Skylarks on the Summit of Helvellyn
- Ring Ouzel; Rowan berries; Sound of a Mountain Stream
- Stars: Colours of the Cosmos
- Seeds and Trees
- A Crystal Stream: The Sound of Wheatear on Fairfield