This print was created in conjunction with the Glasgow Print Studio 50th Anniversary Here & Now Legacy Project. "In recent years I have developed interests in Ogham - the Celtic Tree alphabet and calendar which is based on 13 lunar months and also the pagan Wheel of the Year; an annual cycle of festivals observing the chief solar events and cycles of the seasons. I’m drawn to thought processes which observe these cycles and bring us into line with the natural world and the ancient rhythms we find there."

"Currently Earth’s resources are depleted with ecological processes well out of balance and our own relationship to nature culturally feels too remote."

"Reviewing my life I realised I always felt best in places that were not built up or heavily concreted, where people lived more in harmony with nature, like time spent in The Gambia and my mother’s house in Arran which I went to most weekends over 20 years."

"Earlier this year I was commissioned to illustrate a book of forgeable Scottish plants and learned more about the wealth of healing properties we can find around us in the green world."

"The Enchanted Forest is a homage to that world and its magical properties. It features the Scots Pine which symbolises the beginning of the lunar year, The Elder tree famed for its ability to heal and the Rowan tree - the most magical of trees."

Ashley Cook was born in Edinburgh in 1964. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art with First Class BA Hons in 1986, going on to do receive a postgraduate degree in Printmaking in 1987. Following her studies, she was screen printing technician from 1987 to 1990, then Lecturer in Printmaking from 1990 to 1995 at Glasgow School of Art.

Cook continued her practice throughout winning awards and exhibiting internationally. She received awards from The British Council, The Scottish Arts Council, The Lady Artist Club Trust, Glasgow Art Club, The Icelandic Cultural Council, The Mexican Cultural Council and a Kate & Robert Wilson Town Award. She joined Glasgow Print Studio in the early 90’s with her first big solo show there in 1991. After leaving GSA in 1995 she taught night classes and workshops in screen printing at Glasgow Print Studio and worked in the GPS shop until 2004. Following this she was Project Co-ordinator for The Scottish Academy of Asian Arts from 2004 to 2008. She volunteered in The Gambia from 2008 to 2010 opening a Centre for Children at Juffereh which is still open. Since 2010 she has focused on her practice with a WASPS studio at the Briggait.

She works with the mediums of screen-printing, mono-printing, digital imaging and collage. Her work is collected internationally.