Posts Tagged ‘britishlandscape’
Lost Footpaths the Ramblers Project
Lost Footpaths, the Ramblers Project. The cry ‘if you don’t use it, you lose it’, apt that when it comes to re-discovering Britain’s lost footpaths. The Ramblers group of Britain are passionate about keeping open over 100,000 miles of footpaths in Britain. However many of these footpaths have been lost, they are unmapped. As a…
Read MoreA Great Oak Tree John Constable
A Great Oak Tree by John Constable. In 1801 John Constable drew a chalk image of an oak tree. This drawing gives me inspiration because it is an outdoor sketch. The young artist was learning to observe the countryside and in particular, the form of the trees. Outdoor sketching, can be challenging thing but it…
Read MoreThe Holloway Lanes
What are the holloways? Scattered across the countryside of Britain are old track ways, the holloway lanes, ancient routes across the countryside. Some of these ancient paths were stabilized with asphalt but many were left as un-metaled tracks. In certain parts of southern England, these track-ways have deepened, hollowed out by centuries of traffic to…
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