Snoseas Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:04:53 -0400 https://www.snoseas.co.uk/ en-us © 2026 Snoseas yes Totnes, UK 5bd922c5-c715-5133-9f50-788a759a825f Ivan Grieve episodic false Each episode of Snoseas follows the arc of a session — a single plant, a season, a thread of natural history, folklore and Shakespeare’s writing — moving toward a moment of stillness. Rooted in the Devon landscape. Sensing toward stillness.

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The violet has finished its performance in Devon. It was here in February — small, purple, modest, brief as it always was. In this episode Snoseas follows Viola odorata through the Roman festival of the dead, Ovid’s unfinished almanac, Ophelia’s withered grief, the outrage of the Impressionists and the extraordinary science of a flower that temporarily steals your ability to smell it — before revealing, in ultraviolet, a hidden blazing the human eye is still learning to see.


Put the last touches to my undertaking. — Ovid, Fasti, final entry, 30 June.



Snoseas — the seasons reflected. Sensing toward stillness. snoseas.co.uk


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The violet has finished its performance in Devon. It was here in February — small, purple, modest, brief as it always was. In this episode Snoseas follows Viola odorata through the Roman festival of the dead, Ovid’s unfinished almanac, Ophelia’s withered grief, the outrage of the Impressionists and the extraordinary science of a flower that temporarily steals your ability to smell it — before revealing, in ultraviolet, a hidden blazing the human eye is still learning to see.


Put the last touches to my undertaking. — Ovid, Fasti, final entry, 30 June.



Snoseas — the seasons reflected. Sensing toward stillness. snoseas.co.uk


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Snoseas is a creative practice rooted in the Devon landscape, exploring the natural world through Shakespeare’s flowers, natural history and the slow process of making — moving toward a moment of stillness. The first episode follows the aquilegia — six point nine million years old, toxic, beautiful and perpetually adapting — from its evolutionary intelligence to Norse mythology, from Ophelia’s grief to the shifting seasons it has already begun to answer.

Aquilegia scape in spring — we are one now

Snoseas — the seasons reflected. Sensing toward stillness. snoseas.co.uk


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Snoseas is a creative practice rooted in the Devon landscape, exploring the natural world through Shakespeare’s flowers, natural history and the slow process of making — moving toward a moment of stillness. The first episode follows the aquilegia — six point nine million years old, toxic, beautiful and perpetually adapting — from its evolutionary intelligence to Norse mythology, from Ophelia’s grief to the shifting seasons it has already begun to answer.

Aquilegia scape in spring — we are one now

Snoseas — the seasons reflected. Sensing toward stillness. snoseas.co.uk


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