Christmas Fern

$78.00

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This limited edition blind embossed relief print is part of The Cameo Series which spotlights native plants encountered by the artist while exploring Western North Carolina. Printed from a hand-carved block, the absence of ink enhances the embossed shadows, emphasizing the intricate details of each plant’s form. Much like a cameo role in a film or a piece of cameo jewelry that highlights an individual, each piece in this series focuses on a particular plant, bringing attention to its specific role within the natural ecosystem.

Size: 10″ x 8″
Medium: Blind Embossed Linoleum Block Print
Paper Type: Stonehenge, cotton, archival, acid-free
Paper Color: Fawn
Limited Edition of 100
Numbered, titled and signed by the artist

The Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is one of the most common ferns in the Southeast, with its evergreen fronds adding year-round beauty to woods and shady hillsides. Preferring moist, well-drained soil, this adaptable fern is also remarkably drought-tolerant. It thrives in partial to full shade but can handle some sun if provided with sufficient moisture, and it grows naturally in a wide range of soil types and conditions. Typically growing 18 to 30 inches tall, Christmas fern spreads by creeping rhizomes, forming dense clumps that can be easily divided in spring or fall.

In early spring, Christmas fern’s tightly coiled fiddleheads emerge silvery green before maturing into long, dark green fronds. The brown and scaly stipe (stalk below the blade) supports a lanceolate (spear-shaped) blade with regularly arranged pinnae (leaflets). Mature plants first produce upright, fertile fronds with round sori (reproductive structures) in rows, followed by shorter, arching sterile fronds.

Opinions on the origin of its common name vary, with some attributing it to its evergreen nature at Christmas and others to the stocking-like shape of its pinnae (leaflets).

Sources: https://gnps.org/plant/christmas-fern-polystichum-acrostichoides/, https://wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-ferns-christmas-fern-polystichum-acrostichoides.html

All prints are hand-pulled and my vary slightly.

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I have a husband who pays attention, and so unexpectedly, on Christmas morning a couple of years ago, I unwrapped a cardboard tube. Inside it was a twin set – two prints, the prints I loved and wanted – the sweetest gift. I was ELATED. We had them specialty framed, and they live happily in unison together above our mantle, where I knew they always belonged. Thank you, Lauren! Thank you for giving visual life to a feeling and a memory that so many of us know, love, and cherish. You are MAGIC.

– Morgan T.

Since my husband and I moved from the southeast to the northwest last summer, I have tried to fill our new home with as many pieces and treasures from our former Appalachian home as I can. Lauren’s print is like a window back to the hills and the woods that we loved so much. Thank you so much for creating something that brings so much joy to my soul.

– Haley M.

Lauren’s work is all over our home. I have nothing but good things to say. Her work is stunning, detailed, and clearly labor intensive. If we had a choice, we would live in Boone, but can’t, but we do keep the magic of that area here with her work.

– Kathy S.

Christmas Fern

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