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I'm fascinated with biomimicry; creating designs and structures, by imitating many unusual patterns and organisms and different flowers, plants and sea creatures.

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Evolution is a research and development lab; failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. Biomimicry is about imitating life to create a better life. Let's learn from old nature to design for the next nature.

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What is Biomimicry and and what is nature's purpose?

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What is Biomimicry and and what is nature's purpose?

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1. An nature-inspired idea or design that can make low carbon future sustainable and efficient

2. They have hidden unities

3. Life does chemistry in water

4. Life banks on diversity

5. Life uses safe element (part of nature's recipe)

Low temeprature

Low pressure

low toxicity

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1. Nature runs in light

2. Nature uses only the energy it needs

3. Nature fits form to function

4. Nature recycles everything

5. Nature rewards cooperation

6. Nature banks on diversity

7. Nature demands local expertise

8. nature curbs excesses from within

9. Nature taps the power of limits

10. Nature taps the power of limits

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1. It helps maintain the ecological balance of life.

2. The beauty of nature refers to its freshness, openness, warmth and slow breeze.

3. Nature exists, moves, evolves and changes in its intrinsic way.

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At V&A, this is a sculptor called "Bow Wave" by Halima Cassel, who specialises in abstract and geometric forms inspired by nature. This abstract form was influenced by the imitation of water movements. Furthermore, this structure illustrates her fluid and precise process.

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A glass sculptor created by Dale Chihuly at Victoria and Albert Museum

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A blue whale skeleton at the natural History Museum

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Cloud Cities: Species of Spaces by Tomas Saraceno

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In-formation by Ross Lovegrove, who was influenced by the expressive intensity of natural rocky areas like the Grand Canyon.

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1. What materials perfectly resemble the movement or texture of living and wild beings?

2. How could I present an artwork that resembles wildlife's purpose and potential

3. Which creature or living being resembles the artwork that you created?

4. What animal and plant abilities could I mimic?

5. What's the purpose of biomimicry?

6. What's nature's true purpose and potential

7. what kind of nature that I want to express?

8. How could I interact with nature?

9. What could I go even further through different types of fascinating species?

10. What kind of wildlife imitation and strategy influence you?

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A geometric piece, with pieces of wooden sticks, layered each other into a three-dimensional structure at the Leonardo De Vinci Museum.

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An organic structural installation by Peter Getenarr uses paper to reflect on close-up patterns of a leaf or a bud.

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A Sculptor by Henry Moore uses natural materials ( wood, bronze and stone) to create

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300-word (reflective writing based on the assessment)

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300-word (reflective writing based on the assessment)

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I am passionate about creating art inspired by nature and wildlife, especially through biomimicry. I find it fascinating how the unique characteristics and potential of different living creatures and plants can be used to create something extraordinary and beautiful. For instance, solar panels were inspired by plants and flowers that absorb light to make their food through photosynthesis. I want to use nature’s logic, tranquillity, and beauty to captivate and reconnect the audience with wildlife and its knowledge.

My goal is to research different plants and animals' habitats, including their skills, colours, movements, and organisms. I want to transform this knowledge into abstract sculptures and installations of different sizes, conveying their hidden unity, beauty, and ecological philosophy. My forte lies in carving, curling, and twisting different materials into geometrical forms and structures. I want to take my installations to the next level by experimenting with textiles instead of paper to reflect the signatures of animals or plants.

I am fascinated by nostalgic creatures such as the siphonophore, a colony of single-celled organisms that belong to the cnidaria family. I want to research the purpose of its properties, including the contrast of its extraordinary colours around its organisms and the way it moves so nostalgically underwater. Furthermore, I want to sketch and bring out its exotic and phenomenal organic structures using watercolour and oil pastel. To create its structural form, I want to experiment with paper to fold and curve into molecular forms as maquettes and then generate a large version by using plastic and possibly tracing paper due to the creature's translucent texture.

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Various organisms of the siphonophore

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I have been inspired by the work of artists such as Ross Lovegrove, who has created many molecular structures, designs, and installations based on nature's patterns and movements. Halima Cassell is another artist who imitates nature's movements and has created geometric sculptures using clay. Leonardo da Vinci is also known for using biomimicry to create inventions and designs based on the abilities of animals, such as birds' ability to fly.

For my final major project, I want to investigate the functions and purposes of various creatures and natural elements. I am curious about the reasons behind their unique abilities and skills. I also want to explore close-up forms, abstract-looking textures, and patterns. I plan to create maquettes using clay or paper to experiment with organic forms and organisms. My goal is to discover what I can mimic from different species and minerals and transform them into abstract and geometrical forms through installations.

I am interested in exploring the subject of nature through the lens of plants, creatures, minerals, and water. I find their unique colours, cultures, and natural habitats fascinating. In particular, I am intrigued by the use of biomimicry in art and design, which is the process of imitating nature's logic and beauty to create original works.

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Embark on an immersive journey into the ocean depths with Blue Planet - the ultimate and most comprehensive exploration of the vibrant marine world.

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My interest in paper started while working as a printmaker, when my engravings had such deep relief, that commercial paper could not fill it.

I decided to make my own paper and was helped by Jo Persoon at the Royal Dutch Paper Factory, KNP. He taught me about beaters for making paper pulp and vacuum systems to suck water out of pulp, to make paper. The laboratory beater I used was unable to process long fibers, so I built a beater of my own design.

A paper sheet is thin and strong and, reinforced with very thin ribs of bamboo, can be compared to a leaf. By beating pulp a long time, an extraordinary play of forces occurs during the drying process of my paper sculpture. The paper shrinks considerably, up to 40%, and the force of this puts the non-shrinking bamboo framework under stress, just as a leaf when it drys.

My sculptures start as totally 2-dimensional, colored sheets of pulp laying on my vacuumtable. The forms in my work are caused by pulp drying and shrinking in unison. The simplicity of the material, which is the carrier, the color, the texture and the form, in one, makes working with it wonderful and direct.

To bring paper art to the public and to be inspired by fellow paper artists, I instigated the Holland Paper Biennial in Museum Rijswijk and CODA, Apeldoorn. With friends, Pat and I have published seven books with the first seven Biennials.
Peters Portfolio Curriculum Vitae

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Welcome to the website of Peter Gentenaar MFA and Patricia Torley. Since 1970, we've been exploring the mysteries of plant and paper fibers. We have each specialized in different, organic facets of paper making. To keep up to date with our latest activities please visit our blog: Here is a short impression of our 2018 show...

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What is a Siphonophore? - Google Arts & Culture

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Though they may sometimes be mistaken for jellies, there's much more than meets the eye when it comes to siphonophores