Projects Updated
Working with the Middlewood Trust
20/10/09
Richard has recently begun a collaboration with the Middlewood Trust in Roeburndale and another local Land Artist Julia Brooklyn.
The Middlewood Trust is a charity interested in promoting sustainable living and agriculture and runs courses to teach people how to go about it. It is set in 220 acres of beautiful countryside and ancient woodland with the wonderful River Roeburn running through the middle of it. Richard has been given permission to make his sculptures on their land.
'I am very excited and grateful to have been given permission to work there. The area has a tremendous amount of scope, there is such richness of materials and fantastic, wild and natural landscapes to be found in that place that I hope to spend many peaceful hours creating there. I have already made several visits and I find it a very inspiring place which I hope will keep me busy with new and fresh ideas for many months to come.'
He also is beginning a working partnership with Julia Brooklyn, a talented Land Artist also from Lancaster, and they are looking into publishing a book of the work they do at Middlewood.
'I am also very excited to be working with Julia on this project. I find her work fascinating and beautiful and she has a very interesting take on ephemeral Land Art, I would thoroughly recommend checking out her work on Flickr.'
The Middlewood Trust is a charity interested in promoting sustainable living and agriculture and runs courses to teach people how to go about it. It is set in 220 acres of beautiful countryside and ancient woodland with the wonderful River Roeburn running through the middle of it. Richard has been given permission to make his sculptures on their land.
'I am very excited and grateful to have been given permission to work there. The area has a tremendous amount of scope, there is such richness of materials and fantastic, wild and natural landscapes to be found in that place that I hope to spend many peaceful hours creating there. I have already made several visits and I find it a very inspiring place which I hope will keep me busy with new and fresh ideas for many months to come.'
He also is beginning a working partnership with Julia Brooklyn, a talented Land Artist also from Lancaster, and they are looking into publishing a book of the work they do at Middlewood.
'I am also very excited to be working with Julia on this project. I find her work fascinating and beautiful and she has a very interesting take on ephemeral Land Art, I would thoroughly recommend checking out her work on Flickr.'