Of Mice & Moths

Seeing the Light 'Finch by Finch'

Solo Cast Glass Sculpture Exhibition by Tolly Nason

Zoology Museum - Cambridge

After many months of intense work by Tolly & a week of help from family & friends before the deadline, this superbly unique exhibition opened with private views on Wednesday & Thursday evening at the Zoology Museum in Cambridge & has been hailed a huge success! The exhibition centre-piece consists of 14 solid, large-scale, red cast glass polished Finch beaks on wooden plinths, all individually lit from behind. These fine specimens show the evolution of species with the development of 14 different beak shapes from one species, adapted & evolved over time to utilize the food sources available to the Finches on different isolated Islands within the Galapagos. The sculptures are exact enlarged replicas (20x) of the beaks, taken from Darwin's Finch collection brought back to the UK on the 'Beagle' voyage. This exhibition is in conjunction with the Darwin Festival & is open now until September - so if you are in Cambridge, be sure to pop into the Museum & take a look. More on these & other works by Tolly can be viewed at:

The Bower House Gallery & www.tollysark.com

In between helping with the exhibition, moth trapping has still been underway in the Woodbridge garden. The first images on this posting are of a scarce immigrant to the east coast - a Red-necked Footman. I had only seen them previously on the Isles of Scillly. The other images are of a White Satin Moth, Orange Moth, Scalloped Shell, Rosy Footman & last but not least, the Wood Mouse (again!).