Drawings and Script Edwina Ashton
Animation David Jacobs
Sound Kit Poulson
Voiceover Alex Baker
Animation Assistant Julia McKinlay

With thanks to rock pool advisors:
Professor John Spicer, Plymouth University and Professor Richard Thompson, Plymouth University

Co-commissioned by Phoenix Gallery and the Animated Exeter festival in association with Animate Projects.

…in a rose columned forest is inspired by the books of Edmund and Philip Gosse. Edmund Gosse’s memoir (1907), Father and Son is an account of the childhood he spent with his father, Philip Henry Gosse, the Victorian marine biologist and prolific author. Reading this book led Edwina Ashton to Philip Gosse’s extraordinary scientific writings and illustrations, especially: The Ocean, Evenings at the Microscope, and The British Sea Anemones and Corals.