Phandulwazi School Grade 10’s.

Art students in Grade 11 from Queen’s College and Girls’ High School in Queenstown visited.

New paintings:

There are several new paintings by Diana on display in the Ecology Shrine and Diana's Studio (Click to see the images):

• Interbeing
• Self Portrait
• Lourie Fountain
• Gateway to the New Cosmology, and
• The Forest and the Milky Way Galaxy

To view Diana's other recent paintings, click here.

Forthcoming events at the Ecology Shrine:

• 15^th October 2011: The Ecology Shrine will be hosting a colloquium entitled The Ecological Self for "Green Living East London".
• 4^th November 2011: The Amathole Foundation from Denmark will visit the Ecology Shrine and will make an ecological art installation using natural materials.

Other Ecology Shrine news:

• 4^th October, 2011. Diana's article entithed "Have we gone past the turning point?" has been published on the Critical Thought website of the Rhodes Business School. Read the article.
• Increasing numbers of people from near and far are visiting the Ecology Shrine. Educational visits from schools, colleges and universities are ongoing. Diana guides students on eco-literacy tours of the Ecology Shrine and a walk into the adjoining indigenous forest.
• Groups of Eco-tourists visit regularly. These include tours lead by Rob Prentiss, Landscape Tours, and Margre Tours from Denmark.
• The Ecology Shrine featured in a National Geographic book on South Africa, published by Delius.
• TV Documentaries featuring the Ecology Shrine include Pasella, Going Nowhere Slowly and several youth programmes.

Hogsback Participatory Forest Management Forum

Diana is the chairperson of the Participatory Forest Management Forum (PFM) in Hogsback. The Forum works under the Directorate of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) to promote protection and sustainable use of the indigenous forests at Hogsback.

The Forum was instrumental in the clearing of invasive species and the replanting of the forest patch above Madonna and Child Falls. The area has also been fenced so as to keep cattle and goats out until the forest is fully rehabilitated.

The Forum has completed a business plan for the following:

• Two teams to clear the forests of alien and invasive species and to replant with indigenous ones.
• Increased foot patrols to prevent hunting, the laying of snares, and the removal of timber, plants and fauna.
• Better signage warning people of the serious consequences of contraventions of the National Forest Act.
• Establishing a herbarium of traditional African healing plants and trees.
• Trail maintenance.

Green Fire Exhibition

An exhibition of 17 paintings by Diana Graham opened on Saturday 30th September 2006 in the Green Fire Gallery adjacent to the Ecology Shrine.

The exhibition celebrated the 10 years of the Ecology Shrine and coincided with the flowers of the Spring season in Hogsback.

Click here to view Diana's Green Fire Exhibition.

To view Diana's other recent paintings, click here.

Awards and Recognition

• Ford Foundation Scholarship for study at Schumacher College in May/June 2003.
• East Cape Premier's Award for Sculpture.
• The Lonely Planet includes a description of the Ecology Shrine.
• The Ecology Shrine featured in the book entitled "Secrets of Sacred Space" by Chuck Pettis. Now available from Amazon.
• Mail & Guardian WWF Green Trust award (Individual category).
• The Ecology Shrine often features on national television and in the print media.
• Article on the Ecology Shrine appears in a new National Geographic book about South Africa. Published by Delius 2009.