Paintings
The 21 Group of Artists
An exciting new 5-day arts festival celebrating Inland Cornwall and combining music with pots, paintings, poems, photos and food in the powerful setting of Bodmin Moor. https://lavethan.co.uk/music-on-the-moor.
I'll be there with my moorland paintings on Thursday 10th July. See details here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musiconthemoor
Blog: landscapes, influences & inspiration
Memories, thoughts, ideas and quotes; observations of nature, walks, concerns about environment, climate crisis and inequality - all those things that may make their way into my work.
Of Climate & Ecological Emergency
"We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not.
If we don’t take care of nature, we can’t take care of ourselves."
Inger Anderson, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme www.unenvironment.org
"If current trends continue, humanity will dramatically alter virtually all of Earth's remaining natural ecosystems within a few decades."
Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science at Stanford University, where she also serves as Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology; and co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project. Exeter University
"Underlying all of these problems of introducing contamination into our world is the question of moral responsibility - responsibility not only to our own generation but to those of the future."
Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (1907-1964) https://rachelcarson.org/Default.aspx