is an ongoing project about endangered and extinct plants and fungi in our food chain

There is a very rapid extinction happening in our food chain due to climate change. 

A 1-2 degree change in temperature threatens to be the end for many of our favourite everyday foods like for example coffee, grapes, chocolate, bananas, avocado, chamomile and vanilla.

The diversity loss is showing in all our food crops, almost one-fifth of all species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades.

Vivienne' s paintings create awareness that this vanishing flora is part of the treasure chest of our food and medicines chains.

Art by being visual maybe has the ability to make the topic of species loss more accessible. Maybe it has the power to form a deeper emotional connection to our relationship with the natural world. Vivienne’s challenge lies in how to tell this truth effectively by discovering ways how to visually articulate these unsettling facts.