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NEWS & EVENTS
WITH BEAUTY BEFORE US:
the Springtime wildflowers of Crete
17 – 24 April, 2012
with Jan O'Highway
Next April I am really delighted to have been asked to present a
workshop in Crete - and I'm hoping you can join us. Our subject will be the
beauty of Cretan wildflowers - and how to interpret that beauty through the new
art of Scanner Photography. The invitation comes from the environmental charity
Flowers of Crete, in association with the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC), where
I've exhibited scanner-prints in Botanic Art exhibitions in previous years.
The week-long workshop will be based at the OAC's own Botanic Museum and Garden,
just outside Kolympari on the lovely North West Cretan coast. The not-for-profit
OAC has been organizing international conferences and other activities to
encourage mutual understanding on an interfaith, intercultural and
inter-scientific level since 1968.
With Beauty Before Us is a science/art venture; a week-long print-making
workshop exploring the wildflowers and botanical riches of Crete through the
slow moving lens of a flatbed scanner. With a focus on the Cretan flora, there
will be excursions to the spectacular Spring orchid and wildflower fields of the
mountains led by Botanic experts Professor Jacques Zaffran, who established the
Botanic Museum and Garden, and Julia Jones FLS (Fellow of the Linnean Society)
artist, botanist and President of "Flowers of Crete", a charity dedicated to the
preservation of the island's indigenous flora.
Julia who has lived on Crete for 15 years and is passionate about the
wildflowers, will be with us for the whole week as Assistant.
Scanner-photography is easy and fun to learn and a great tool for artists,
scientists, teachers and anyone who loves exploring the natural world...we'll
have walking, talking (lots), an exhibition of work, and a wonderful Gala Dinner
with Cretan dancing.
PDF DOWNLOAD : CLICK HERE
http://www.janohighway.com
http://www.flowersofcrete.info
www.oac.gr
more images of the OAC and scanner-photography on my flickr pages in the
Photography and Scanner-photographs sets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohighway/
UCL Library Services is building an on-line institutional
repository of research carried out by staff and researchers at UCL. The
repository provides access to the full text of
publications. It is freely accessible on the Internet and is not for profit.
Full bibliographic details are added to each article in the repository,
including details of the first place of publication, copyright information and
alternative locations of the article.
Dr Paul Basu, who is an academic at UCL, would like to deposit the full text of
the following article from Landscape and Arts in the repository:
Basu, P (2005) Museum, Landscape and the Storytelling Space Between. Landscape
and Arts , 34/35 2 - 6
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk

Francis Carr
www.1st-uk-screen-prints.com
Water's Edge
A High Tide project for the
London 2012 Discovering Places campaign. Water’s Edge is a UK wide public
participation project connecting art and culture to the local environment.
www.hightideuk.org

These images are a selection
of some of the five hundred photographs taken of water’s edge by the public on
the Summer Solstice 2010, the 21st of June in the UK between sunrise and sunset
and are being screened across the UK on the London 2012 Live Sites over the
London 2012 Open Weekend from 23rd – 25th July 2010

Funded by the Environment Agency
Supported by the BBC Big Screens
Technical support by Hi-Impact
Water’s Edge is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
For more information on BBC Big Screens please visit
www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens
Our five Water's Edge films are
now available to view on the BBC Video Nation website.
Please visit HIGH TIDE for the link...
www.hightideuk.org
James Brady & Janette Porter - Curators
james_gaia_project@yahoo.co.uk
janetteporteruk@gmail.co.uk
Flash@Hebburn
Info and photos click here.
NEWS
Saturday 4 February 2012
10.30 – 15.30
AGM plus Shaping the Landscape
at Alan Baxter & Associates LLP,
75 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EL
Cost: £20 (including sandwich lunch) payment can be made on the door but please
register your wish to attend by emailing bobbie@bobbiemillar.com
so we know how many to cater for.
Presentations about three different hard rock quarries and how a landscape
architect, a sculptor and winner of the 2011 Marsh award for Public Sculpture,
and a landscape partnership have, or are going to, engage with the quarried
landscape:
Hermitage Quarry: Tom Ladell & Andy Bate
The Coldstones Cut: Bob Orange & Biddy Noakes
The Stone Academy: Ewan Allinson & Charlotte Hursey

Photo credit Paul Harris, 2010
From Member Sue Harrison
Please join me at the Nidderdale show on
September 19th and at Masham Art Festival on October 22nd as part of their 'Arting
About' Trail.

MEMBER PROJECT
First stage of entrance for new vegetable garden for St. Mary Magdalene school
Peckham. Arch by Jeff Higley, the site includes a pond fed by a rainwater
collecting shelter by Arthur Demowbray and is a Blooming Belles project run by
Madeline Bell.
Rock Music
from the Cumbrian hills

Ruskin Rocks: the sound of nature - the nature of sound
The world-famous percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie is taking part in a new
project which introduces children to geology by constructing and playing
‘musical rocks’.
Dame Evelyn Glennie will demonstrate the completed instrument at its launch
on 19th August 2010, which is open to the public.
The University of Leeds has been awarded nearly £200,000 by Natural England,
through DEFRA's Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, to create a 21st century
percussion instrument using rocks found throughout Cumbria.
The musical rock instrument will be available to be played by visitors of all
ages after its launch in August 2010.
For more information
click here
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Linda Gordon has offered to share her blog with Landscape & Arts Network,
extracts from the monthly articles will be appearing there.
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to take a look and maybe leave a comment.