What a great conversation we had with Jonathan Pitches and Jason Konig, for The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast, which went like this April. This inspired podcast shares a range…
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It’s not often you get to hear the soul-stirring sound of cello music being carried across the Langstrath Valley by a late summer wind … A few weeks ago we…
Back in 2017 we created three treefolds across Cumbria, in part as an element of our project The Long View, but also to celebrate the Charter for Trees, Woods and…
Performing a poem to open the recent LUNZ Hub event about Land Use in UK uplands and Protected Landscapes felt essential. It’s not the first time, and in fact using…
What struck me, and continues to strike me, about the Hodgsons, is their gentle and determined attitude to farming. A continual quest for balance: with love, knowledge, a commitment to…
What happens when you create a poem in 12 monthly sections, and film it outside, with the seasons and landscape changing? This is what I (Harriet) have been doing since…
Two years ago we were invited to join 20 other artists in a group show, with work that responds to three hills in Wales, just west of the border with…
For the past two years, we’ve been visiting four upland regions of England – the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria’s Lake District, the Shropshire Hills and Dartmoor – as part of the…
**NEWS!! We’re joining a UK-wide hub whose purpose is to address questions around land use and inform policy-makers about what is needed to achieve net zero … The challenges facing…
We were quite blown away to receive a letter from the Royal Geographical Society with news that we have been awarded the 2023 Cherry Kearton medal and award. In their…
In 2022 we became immersed in a bog – both literally and through a great deal of learning. We got to know Bolton Fell Moss, in north Cumbria, pretty well…
Attack on Nature, or Survive, Thrive and Revive? Update: unfortunately the NNN event was cancelled due to rail strikes, but our thinking still stands! It’s less than a month until…
What can a photo tell you? It’s a fragment of a story, but leaves some sensory gaps … the echoing drill of a thousand guillemots chattering against the cliffs, the…
Putting Culture & Creativity on the Map! So excited to announce the launch of a new project that will be getting people walking and celebrating culture and creativity across Cumbria…
just to witness the rise of the moon is to see darkness in a different light
I would love to write about joy, young curlew, flying into a warm summer sky …
Creating a Moss Hut – part of the 2020 Reimagining Wordsworth programme.
Sense of Here exhibition Live Q&A – following up on the unanswered questions.
The word HOPE stretches around the rust-red trunk of a Scot«És Pine, writ large over the comings and goings of families. Within line of sight, there«És another word: «É_RISING«É frames the Eyrie stage, where music, dancing and poetry breed lightness of heart, friendships, and deep conversations.
There are some places where to go outside is, quite literally, to go in. We were taken to such a place off the beaten track, hidden in the South Downs …
The thing is, hope is powerful, and it has a tendency to keep on keeping on. In reality though, the flame of hope can only stay burning if there«És also action to change a situation …
Lovely to welcome Julian Hoffman with a guest blog calling for a rethink about destroying irreplaceable ancient woodlands …
Patience rewarded, and hope continuing. A quest to find a curlew’s nest, so that the chicks may have a future …
How can we bring Data of the Heart into the equations of cost, value and connection? A poem written for the UK Network of Environmental Economists, March 2020.
After finding the curlews’ nest, we were approached by local conservation specialists to make the next step: instal a protective fence …
Sense of Here: A year of walking, research and art in 2019 is feeding forward into our public programme in 2020.
We have been aching to get back to the fells and, quite literally, to plug back in and reset. It«És so fantastically good for a sense of wellbeing …
In the midst of Covid-19, how does time in nature help? And after the worst of the pandemic, what choices will be made about living in a post-covid world?
HS2 is threatening 108 ancient woodlands; this work highlights the loss and joins the fight for the protection of these irreplaceable habitats
A quick post to announce the beginning of a new project – walks, camps, art in the landscape and an evolving digital map …
” Whether we regard our situation as heaven or hell depends on our perception. ”
That quote resonated with me just a week ago whilst camped in deep snow below the worldÇÙs third highest peak, Kanchenjunga. I was coming at the peak from the west, on the Nepali side. To the east lay the Sikkim region of India, to the north Tibet. It had been a tough few days, a typhoon over the Bay of Bengal had brought three days of heavy rain in the valley below and a lot of snow
IÇÙve owned the large format camera for perhaps 20 years, but for many of those years it languished in a box stashed in the loft. Digital came along and film was dead, right? Well, wrong actually. I started to use the camera again five years ago and now could not imagine going on a trip without it.
ItÇÙs official now, that the current era is the Anthropocene ÇÏ ÇÚThe Age of ManÇÙ. Wind back the clock to the late 1760s when a writer called Thomas Gray wrote a journal of his tour of the English Lakes. The result was what was to become the first true ÇÚguide to the lakesÇÙ and a very popular one at the time. Last weekend, GrayÇÙs guide was one of several shared and discussed at The Wordsworth Trust.
Rob knows he feels unsettled at sea – yet was drawn to a sailing trip to encounter the land from the sea, and discover, along the way, what he was inclined to focus on with his large format camera.
Ten days of sailing along Scotland«És northwest coast, past the Torridonian giants of Stac Pollaidh, Suilven and Quinag, and into and out of lochs with sheltered bays for quiet nights. The scenery here is not just jaw-droppingly beautiful, it«És also one of the richest landscapes, in geological terms, on the planet.
The Long View exhibition is currently on show at Great North Museum : Hancock. Instead of giving our own thoughts on it, we’d like to share one review that sums up the project and the work on show.
There seems to be a lot of talk about ‘nature disconnect’ and ‘getting back to nature’ but the words don’t feel right, as we are a part of nature. Immersion in a mountain stream helped me find a new way of thinking about this …
Where are the edges and just how big does ‘here’ feel? Thoughts about this bubbled up during our 7-day midsummer walk …
This particular bee is flying heavily from one clover to the next. It seems to take a random zig-zag path, led on by scent, but maybe there is a plan that I, as a non-bee, can have no idea about. Above its pollen-laden body, meadow grasses sway, sorrel shimmers red-green, oxeye daisies turn to the sun, and the fells climb green to the skyline. ThereÇÙs constant birdcall echoing through the valley, and the riverÇÙs gentle song is like breath, always there.
