LLAMFF and UKC have got together and are running a photography competition hosted at UKClimbing.com.

There are three categories and entrants are invited to submit their photographs to one of the following titles:

• Mountains
• To The Limit
• Mountain Flora/Fauna

Last day for entries is February 1st 2010.

To read more go to:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2382

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First sortie - 17th September

Si Homfray (photographer) and Ben Carpenter (navigator) spent a whole day covering the Snowdonia National Park from the air. Zig Zagging their way over all the Welsh mountain summits they produced a series of 1500 photographs.  Due to external pressures to fly, perhaps before we were ready, for the most part the mountains were moody, misty and possibly even malevolent. Unlike the picture postcard series for the Lakes and the Peak District they are interesting and worthy but not uber sunny. Perhaps this is all part of some greater force, but for now it just means we will have to fly again.

Words can't really describe the sheer breadth of beauty of Snowdonia but - '...it is really beautiful and quite different to the other parks when put alongside them from this aerial viewpoint.'

More news to follow as soon as we can...

Heath and Heaven

Heath and Heaven is a Living Art project that looks at all the UK’s National Parks from an aerial perspective - a poetical insight into their captivating detail.

Part iii - Snowdonia National Park

First sortie - 17th September - Summer 2009 A flight over the Snowdonia National Park completing the first trilogy of work for the Heath and Heaven project.

Sponsor details to be confirmed.

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WildPhotos

Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is proud to be a Principal Sponsor of WildPhotos 2009, which takes place on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 October at the Royal Geographical Society, London. The event is a unique opportunity to view and discuss the work of the world’s finest nature photographers, including a keynote presentation from Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols.
 
2008 Wildlife Photographer of Year category winner Brian Skerry gives his feedback on last year’s event.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the entire event and made many new friends. In fact I can honestly say that the time I spent in London, between Wildlife Photographer of the Year and WildPhotos, remains one of the finest experiences of my career!...I feel privileged to have presented lectures. I very much hope to be part of all of these things again soon.”
 
Online delegate registration is now open. There are a limited number of places for this event, and tickets will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Register now
Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition on tour

Al Ain National Museum, Abu Dhabi, UAE
After its debut at the Natural History Museum the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition tours around the globe, inspiring thousands to see the world with new eyes.
 

wildphoto@nhm.ac.uk
 

Location: Royal Geographical Society - London
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A new SEAS Festival Programme is now available. The festival begins on 24th September and it has a range of events, installations and social events offering something for everyone. Go to Cultivatewebsite to find out more and to register for the festival or click here for the latest festival programme.
 
Highlights include The Kiss and Waste Project,Monday in the Sun, Beer Tourist, Nightscene and many more.

Lunchtime Café Cityscape discussions with international guests and SEAS artists, plus DJ Dogus Bitecik from Turkey headlining at the SEAS Club for late night sounds.

Special midweek accommodation deals available at Butlins.
 
 

Further information visit:
www.cultivate-em.com/projects
                                    

Location: Skegness
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PRESS RELEASE

Wirksworth Festival 11-26 September

Wirksworth Festival’s Art & Architecture Trail this weekend (12 & 13 September) brings an ambitious and exhilarating mix of cutting edge contemporary art, music, crafts and performance to fill every space in the town.

Modernism and Architecture, Illumination and Animation are the focus for visual arts. Using traditional and new media, there is an emphasis on contemporary art in public spaces. As dusk falls lightworks and illuminated work in shop windows will bring work excitingly to life. Derbyshire artist Charles Monkhouse makes spectacular lightworks, and his Market Square Horizon installation consists of 360 lights fixed to buildings surrounding the square. Video work includes the vibrantly colourful Spatial Weaves video by Martyn Blundell, which will be projected onto a gable end in the Market Place, alternating with video work by Lorenzo Madge.

An illuminated shed of lightworks by Nottingham based artist Raphael Daden will occupy the Memorial Gardens, and shop windows all over town will be displaying new illuminated works specially commissioned by the Festival from rising young East Midlands artists. Michael Branthwaite has made a radical Modernist intervention to a field barn at the National Stone Centre.

With over 100 artists exhibiting, there will be new and exciting things to see in every corner of the town this weekend. Private homes of every shape and size, churches, gardens, and streets will be filled with art.

Main Galleries will be open throughout the Festival period, showing new, specially commisioned or curated work. They include the large gallery space of Newbridge Works where Matthew Houlding will be exhibiting architectural models of imaginary Modernist Utopian buildings, alongside work from emerging new artists, the best of the Fine Art graduates from across the region. Also in Newbridge will be a retrospective of work by local artist Peter Hoon, who died last year. The new Carpet Shop Gallery on St John’s Street will show Alec Finlay’s ongoing project word-mapping the Peak District alongside Maxine Hall’s photos of local people taken last year. In the Parish Room Ben Cove will be showing recent work ranging through sculpture and painting to video installation, and new graduates from Nottingham Trent University Decorative Arts programme will be exhibiting work that includes millinery, glass, porcelain, ceramics, fabrics and wall-coverings.

St Mary’s Church has Glossop-artist Ghislaine Howard’s powerful paintings, while at the Heritage Centre Kate Genver celebrates the skill and ingenuity of Derbyshire farmers with a body of work investigating homemade tools and technologies.

The Makers’ Market crammed with lucious covetable craftworks returns to the Town Hall and the Memorial Hall, accompanied this year by a specially-selected exhibition of contemporary ironworks.

There’s a performance programme to rock your socks off running throughout the Festival, and a second weekend of guided art walks and artist talks.

Full programme and online box office on the Festival website www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk, or enquiries to the office on 01629 824003

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image © steve messam 2009 from an original engraving in the Cumbria Archive, Kendal Library

Fleur de Sel

Ullswater, Glenridding, Cumbria. UK
3rd - 6th September 2009

You are cordially invited by the artists Hannah Stewart and Steve Messam to preview ‘Fleur de Sel’ - an installation on Ullswater, the Lake District, UK.
3rd September 2009 from 11am - 12.30pm
Jenkin's Field (next to Ullswater Steamer Pier), Glenridding, Cumbria.

Fleur de Sel will officially be launched by Richard Leafe, Chief Executive, the Lake District National Park Authority

Light refreshments will be served.

Boats will be available to see the artwork from the water .

R.S.V.P. to:
Sandra Wood
swood@cumbriatourism.org
01539 825006

 
Fleur de Sel:


Fleur de Sel is an installation of large pure white forms floating on the water of Ullswater in the Lake District, created by rural artistsSteve Messam and Hannah Stewart. The title, Fleur de Sel, reflects the delicate light salt crystals, which can be skimmed off the surface of seawater and references Venice’s earliest industry. Each form is made from silk and lace parasols and are in various stages of apparent decay. The line of forms creates a visual and theoretical line through the heart of the Lake District to Venice where the piece was premiered at the Venice Biennale.
The forms are inspired by a very English view of Venice - that of the Grand Tour where the parasol becomes an icon of the need to protect the delicate English complexion from the sun and an important marker of cultural identity. Venice and Cumbria share a number of points of community - their role in the birth of ‘tourism’ and their association with water and its industries.
Victorian art and architecture critic John Ruskin lived at Brantwood in the Lake District for many years. During that time he made numerous trips to Venice - the subject of his seminal work ‘The Stones of Venice’. In it Ruskin is inspired not only by the architecture of Venice, but also in the way that it decays. It is this beauty in decay which Fleur de Sel celebrates - from an almost solid ball of pure white parasols through a series of states of decay where the forms take on more flower-like appearances.
The piece can also be seen as a metaphor for the preservation of its environments - salt being one of the earliest forms of preservation. Both the Lake District and Venice are delicate balances between tourism and preservation with similar tensions between them.
Fleur de Sel celebrates 60 years of the National Parks, challenging conceptions around design and architecture in this culturally significant landscape and highlights the role that local art and culture have played in the preservation and evolution of the environment for future generations.

For more details see: www.golakes.co.uk/fleurdesel

 

Location: Jenkin's Field
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AFTERGLOW

An installation opposite Lomberdale Hall

by Charles Monkhouse & Sallyann Carlin
29 August 8.00 -10.00
Lomberdale Hall
Middleton-by-Youlgrave

Between Youlgrave & Middleton

GR SK 198 638

Location: Between Youlgrave & Middleton
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Friends of the Peak District's vision is of a living, working countryside that changes with time but remains beautiful forever.

Our panel of judges will be picking winners for the three categories:

• People and Seasons in the Peak District
• People and Seasons in Rural South Yorkshire
• You and Your Friends in the Countryside (under 18s)

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Living Art will be showing its seminal work, Heath and Heaven: An Aerial Portrait of the Peak District National Park at this year's Cliffhanger - the UK’s largest outdoor outdoor-pursuits festival, in one of Sheffield’s biggest green spaces.

Clilffhanger Video Shoot - Daniel Ilabaca 5 - © Jen Green

With competitors and spectators from across the country Cliffhanger makes for a great day out for families from Sheffield and the surrounding area. Featuring The British Bouldering Championships, Come-And-Try-It Climbing Walls, Open Air Market, Reverse Bungee And Other White Knuckle Rides, Orienteering Races, A Guinness World Record Dyno Competition, Demonstration Events, Scuba Diving, Mountain Biking, A Massive Bargain Area, Music, Children’s Rides, And Much, Much More...

Cliffhanger, Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July 2009, Millhouses Park, Sheffield, 10.30am - 6.30pm

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In the 1970s, following a successful career in photo-journalism, Paul moved to rural Derbyshire with his young family; from this point on he made only photographs that were personally relevant to him. Paul has used landscape, family, wildlife, pets and other immediate elements in his environment as the subject matter for a continuing personal odyssey.

Paul Hill is best known for his iconic book White Peak Dark Peak, published in 1990, which drew praise from across art, photography and landscape protection greats such as Hamish Fulton, Fay Godwin and Brian Redhead. Whilst it certainly represents the core of his practice: fine grained black and white shots focusing on gestures and marks in the landscape, highlighting issues such as access to land or exclusion and often following views through the seasons, this current exhibition at Derby Museum shows us a much richer palate of Paul’s work.

Starting with his photojournalism in the 1960s and ending with a recent move into colour and digital work, it follows themes rather than chronographies. It is clear that Paul’s work is a continuing odyssey but with connecting threads which link closely to where he lives and roams, to his family and a deep rooted love for, and a desire to protect the Peak. Issues such as the controversial and tragedy-riven construction of Carsington Reservoir and neo-druidical travellers’ camps on Stanton Moor have a strong prominence in his work. The images are beautiful but often enigmatic, with symbols (sometimes literally: e.g. road signs) that tell a more complex story. Other more abstract work focuses on scenes from everyday family life (often featuring his daughter Sam) but with new angles and insights. A strong series of shots features exotic Peak District animals, such as mountain hares and wallabies, and their impermanence through time and territories.

Sadly, loss also guides the final images which reflect the latter stages of his wife Angela’s unsuccessful fight against cancer. Moving again into semi-abstraction, simple, brightly coloured images of sofa surfaces and a bath mat with talcum powdered footprints – the mundane landscapes of her declining existence – speak powerfully of Paul’s way of coping (through photography) with his greatest loss. Happily, his photographic quest has continued and, although this show has strong elements of a retrospective, a further show drawing again on his archive and new work is due in Birmingham.

Original and limited edition Paul Hill prints are available from Living Art (see www.living-art.org.uk). A few signed copies of White Peak Dark Peak are also available, together with other Paul Hill books.

Personal Places runs from 6th September - 26th October 2008 at Derby Museum and Gallery.

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Living Art is proud to announce a forthcoming presentation of Symphony for the Mountains in association with Rohan.

There will be an audio visual presentation and exhibition of limited-edition art prints from the Symphony for the Mountains exhibition at Rohan Guildford, 224-226 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3JD on Thursday 18 September 2008 – 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

The audio visual presentation commences at 7.15pm and refreshments will be available. To reserve your place, please telephone 01483 304752.

Symphony for the Mountains is a celebration of some of the world’s most inaccessible mountain landscapes from some of the country’s top mountaineers, outdoor
photographers, painters and writers. The work sets out to express the human experience and spiritual gains from time spent in the world’s greatest mountain ranges through the use of photographs, paintings and words. The range of images aims to express the enormous breadth of experiences and vistas witnessed in these wild locations. From the harmonious and healing properties of being above the clouds to the extreme conditions and emotions of world mountaineering. Canvases from the exhibition will be available for purchase on the night at a discount, for Rohan enthusiasts, of 10% off the normal price.

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A celebration of the world's most inaccessible mountain landscapes from some of the country's top mountaineers, outdoor photographers, printers and writers goes to the Lake District National Park's Visitor Centre, Windermere this summer.

Living Art's Symphony for the Mountains will be on show at Brockhole from 9th August - 19th September 2008. For details of visiting click here.

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Heath and Heaven has become part of a new fixture in the newly re-opened Buxton Pavilion Gardens Conservatory.

The conservatory was officially opened today by the Mayor of the High Peak, Councillor Robin Baldry, after 18 months of closure due to structural damage.

New additions to the conservatory include a permanent exhibition of Living Art's Heath and Heaven aerial mosaic of the Peak District National Park in the corridor between the cafe and conservatory, printed onto special metal panels to withstand the humidity and condensation in the conservatory.

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Living Art will be showing its seminal work, Heath and Heaven: An Aerial Portrait of the Peak District National Park at this year's Cliffhanger - the UK’s largest outdoor outdoor-pursuits festival, in one of Sheffield’s biggest green spaces.

With competitors and spectators from across the country Cliffhanger makes for a great day out for families from Sheffield and the surrounding area. Featuring The British Bouldering Championships, Come-And-Try-It Climbing Walls, Open Air Market, Reverse Bungee And Other White Knuckle Rides, Orienteering Races, A Guinness World Record Dyno Competition, Demonstration Events, Scuba Diving, Mountain Biking, A Massive Bargain Area, Music, Children’s Rides, And Much, Much More...

Cliffhanger, Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th July 2008, Millhouses Park, Sheffield, 10.30am - 6.30pm

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Fi Keene, a long-time and dedicated member to Living Art, was shortlisted as one of the finalists in the Trees category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition 2008 with her image Tree Reflections. Congratulations Fi.

You can see Fi's winning image at http://www.igpoty.com/winners_Trees_Fin1.asp?parent=winners

To view Fi's Living Art page click here.

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Living Art is pleased to announce its sponsorship of this year's Friends of the Peak District Photographic Competition.

It is the third year running that Living Art has sponsored the competition, which seeks to find the best photographs of the Peak District National Park. This year's competition follows the theme of 'Life in the Peak'.

Living Art will be providing the competition winner's with specially printed canvases of their winning images. These will be presented at an event in September 2008 to be held at the Edale Moorland Centre.

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A new website has been launched to accompany the Rugged Reflections exhibition currently on show at the Lake District National Park's Visitor Centre, Brockhole.

www.ruggedreflections.co.uk is a beautiful audio visual presentation of the aerial mosaic of shots captured by Si Homfray, as he hung precariously out of a helicopter sweeping across the Lakes. Poetry specially written to accompany the images also feature as part of the presentation.

Click here to be transported and inspired to the wonder that is the Lake District.

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Visitors to Matlock Bath’s Heights of Abraham now have the chance to experience the whole of the Peak District from the air thanks to a fantastic new season-long exhibition.

Heath and Heaven, from Derbyshire-based arts organisation Living Art, features a patchwork of stunning aerial shots of the Peak District National Park, taken from a helicopter in one day by world-renowned photographer John Beatty.

Keen to capture the spirit of the Park, the images, which are put together with words and poems by Living Art founder Si Homfray, take the viewer on a journey across the UK’s first National Park unveiling many of its hidden treasures.  Accompanying panels also offer exciting and informative facts for all the family to learn about the Peak District. 

“We were approached by the Heights of Abraham team to produce an exhibition at their visitor centre after they saw Heath and Heaven at last year’s Visit Peak District Tourism Conference,” commented Helen Wallis, Living Art’s Business Development Officer.

“It is great to be able to bring the whole of the Peak District to a wider audience, and for Living Art to have such fantastic exposure at one of Derbyshire’s best known visitor attractions,” added Ms Wallis.

Heights of Abraham’s Matthew Trembath said: “What we liked most about Heath and Heaven is that it provides the visitor with a unique and innovative view of the Peak District. Most of our visitors just come for the day and this exhibition allows them to get a flavour of the whole Peak District.”

The exhibition complements the many attractions that the Heights has to offer, including its new interpretation attraction the Fossil Factory, which looks at the geological founding of the Peak District.

“Heath and Heaven provides an understanding of the above ground beauty of the Peak whilst the Fossil Factory deals with how it was created. It is the perfect match,” added Mr Trembath.

Heath and Heaven can be seen at Heights of Abraham from 9th February until the 2nd November 2008.

Location: Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
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Hundreds of exceptional photographs taken from the Lake District skies in a single day are set to enthral crowds in a compelling new season long exhibition, which opens on 9th February 2008.

An aerial perspective revealing hidden treasures that cannot be seen from the ground, Rugged Reflections will be unveiled at the Lake District Visitor Centre at Brockhole, on the shores of Windermere, and is expected to stir up a lot of interest.

It features the inspirational work of Derbyshire-based Si Homfray, whose not-for-profit organisation Living Art promotes the beauty of nature and importance of environmental support.

Capturing the ‘sheer magnificence’ of the Lake District National Park from the air, Si explained: “Hanging precariously out of a helicopter, with the shattering noise of rotor blades and 80 miles an hour winds, it was possible to develop a closeness and intimacy with the landscape. It was a very privileged insight into just what makes this iconic place so revered.”

The first flight set out from Newby Bridge and headed north via Windermere, Borrowdale and Keswick to Caldbeck, returning along the eastern fringe of the lakes, taking in Blencathra, Haweswater, High Street and Helvellyn. A second ascent produced dramatic shots of western gems, including Buttermere, Ennerdale and Pillar down to the Langdales, Hardknott Pass and Coniston.

Lake District National Park Authority’s designer James Cook said it was a major coup to be hosting exhibits of such breathtakingly high calibre.

He added: “We know this is going to be a major draw for our visitors, who will be treated to a veritable feast of world-class photography. Even those who are less mobile can experience the joys of the high fells through these wonderful images.”

According to the Si, Living Art is about slowing down and showing the unimaginable beauty of everything when you do stop and take a look at it all.

“I hope the exhibition will be a major attraction for the Lake District’s 12 million visitors, particularly as it opens up the whole of the national park to absolutely everyone,” he said.

“We want to encourage a wide audience to view the detail, warmth and essence of the landscape. We want people to learn, to be inspired and to respect the environment as a national treasure – and to safeguard its future.”

A fervent fan of the outdoors, mountains, photography and the arts, Si has lived in the heart of the Peak District for the past 20 years, embracing every opportunity to explore diverse landscapes; running, climbing, taking pictures, mountain biking and occasionally caving.

Worldwide expeditions opened Si’s eyes to the global challenges we all face and became the catalyst for Living Art.

“I wanted to bring change and open the world’s eyes to the fragile beauty of our environment and the urgent need to encourage others to share this passion,” said Si, who has 22 years’ experience in graphic design and marketing.
 
Leading an experienced team, he stages exhibitions and works with the Internet, traditional media and a variety of clients on environmental art projects large and small.

Having staged two successful Peak District photographic forays, Si is hoping his Lake District exhibition will find have a similar impact.

Rugged Reflections can be seen from 9 February until the end of Brockhole’s season. For opening times and further visiting information visit the Brockhole site at http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/enjoying/lake_district_visitor_centre_at_brockhole.htm or call 015394 46601.

Location: Brockhole Visitor Centre
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The search for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 has begun. All the information about the 2008 competition can be found on the Natural History Museum Website.

If you have broadband you can enter the competition online. Alternatively, you can enter by post using the forms available at the competition website.

Please note, it costs £20 to enter online and £27 to enter by post, due to the increased administration this involves.

Closing date

Monday 31 March 2008 for online submission. Monday 24 March 2008 for postal submission.

New award for 2008

Photographer’s Award for Lifetime Commitment to Wildlife Photography
This award will be given to the photographer whose work and commitment to wildlife photography is considered worthy of commendation. This can either be through the sheer power and beauty of their imagery or the positive impact the imagery has made. All entrants can nominate candidates for this award.

Your nomination must be based on the criteria above, you must include a valid reason.

Online entrants can nominate from within the upload area.
Postal entrants can email a nomination or alternatively enclose the nomination with their package.

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Ray Manley, one of the best landscape photographers in the country, has retired from the Peak District National Park Authority after 29 years.

Ray's images have symbolised the National Park in all its moods and seasons during those years, with their striking compositions, turbulent skies and dramatic vistas.
His photographs have appeared in numerous books about the National Park, and his images have graced every National Park document, display, exhibition and poster for nearly three decades. They have also appeared in the national, regional and local press, tourism publications and national park videos.

Nowhere were his skills more evident than at September's UK Association of National Park Authorities Conference in Buxton, when a constantly changing sequence of Ray's photographs on a giant screen provided the backdrop to a gala dinner.

He remembers, when he first came to the Peak District from the South coast in 1978, enduring a winter, with snow and ice, of a kind we rarely get any more, and struggling to find remote places he now knows by heart.

"I was so impressed by the dramatic scenery," he said. "I remember walking all over Edale and the Hope Valley taking pictures for the then new Edale Information Centre, and coming out on my days off to do it all over again - I was so taken with it."

His favourite landscapes are still in the Dark Peak, above Edale and on Stanage Edge. Ray trained at Manchester College of Art, and in those days he was photographing in black-and-white - which he still prefers. But now Ray is moving back to Southampton to help care for his elderly mother and just take photographs for sheer enjoyment.

more about Ray Manley.

Woolpacks, Kinder Scout by Ray Manley © PDNPA

National Park chief executive Jim Dixon paid tribute to his skills: "Ray has left a remarkable legacy of landscape pictures that will stand the test of time. His photography sets a standard for how all of us view and represent the Peak District. The sheer quality of his work has made our working lives at the Authority easier - we can impress because of his painstaking images.

"He is a professional who is passionate about the National Park, and he is also modest and loyal, with a circle of friends too many to count. Everyone at the Authority wishes him the very best for a happy retirement."

Ray's National Park colleagues bought him a black Labrador pup to accompany him in his retirement. Ray also takes an active interest in sport, playing tennis, football, golf and cricket.

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A special triptych accompanying the Symphony for the Mountains exhibition has been unveiled as part of the special Living Art show at the Kendal Mountain Festivals.

The triptych features a selection of images from the Symphony for the Mountain  and words from Living Art founder Si Homfray, together with those of prominent world figures.

This piece was produced to illustrate the depths of support given to our project the Symphony for the Mountains and is a snapshop of the project to date.

The overall piece measures 3600mm x 900mm, comprising three frames at 1200mm x 900mm, made of canvas wrapped to 45mm deep solid wood stretcher design frame

Ultimately this project will become an interactive audio visual work for the purposes of education and touring.

The tritych will be auctioned off in Spring 2008 with proceeds going to Community Action Nepal.

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Living Art is proud to announce the opening of Symphony for the Mountains exhibition at the 2007 Kendal Mountain Festivals.
The exhibition, showing at the Sugar Store gallery at the Brewery Arts Centre, is a celebration of the world’s most inaccessible mountain landscapes from some of the country's top mountaineers, outdoor photographers, painters and writers including Bill Birkett, Simon Nadin, Rob Collister, Andy Perkins, Jim Curran, Ian Parnell, Doug Scott, Oli Metherell, Cubby Cuthbertson, Mick Fowler, Alistair Lee, Leo Dickinson, John Norris, John Beatty, Dave Willis, Tony West and Andy Cave.

 

The Symphony Exhibition showing at the Sugar Store Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre until 17th November 2007.

For the second year running, Living Art is pleased to be the Kendal Mountain Festivals Arts sponsor.

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Finally - we have created the start of the new professionals area - the first thing to do was to put all the professional artists together who have been so supportive of Living Art all on one page. What a diverse and wonderful collection it is. Listed here are so many lifetimes of talent... we are so grateful, without their kind and generous support, images and patience  Living Art wouldn't have got off the ground.

Thankyou most excellent people.

Si

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A preview selection of Living Landscape ii - the sequel and development to our previous exhibition (The Living Landscape) is on show for everyone to see at the Buxton Tourist Information Centre Gallery from Monday 8th October 2007.

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On September 12th - Living Art and Si Homfray successfully managed to get 1200 aerial photographs in the bag for the forthcoming work - Heath and Heaven - Part ii - The Lake District today.

An excitable and somewhat windswept Mr Homfray was reported to utter the now infamous verbal expletive - 'Yee-Ha' no less than 1200 times while maintaining a somewhat broad grin on his face as they flew the entire length of this great National Park no less than 4 times to achieve their photographic goal.

Enormous thanks and gratitude go out to Mr Jeremy Greaves - pilot and main man at Alpha Helicopters here in Sheffield and Mr Mike Fallon - co pilot and navigator who went to a great deal of trouble to make this precariously weather dependent day happen, drove fuel to the southern end of Windermere for refuelling overnight and ultimately delivered the goods. Thanks.

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On the 19th September - Living Art was honoured to be invited to the National Parks Conference in Buxton, today the 19th September 2007. Attending this prestigious conference was a representative of every National Park in England, Scotland and Wales as well as a considerable representation from a great many other environmental and heritage groups. Heath and Heaven part i - The Peak District was on display in all its glory spanning the entire length of one of the great rooms at the Palace Hotel. Helen and Si were impressed by the sheer depth of care and professionalism on display from such a wealth of individuals who are in charge of enormous areas of this Islands precious land. Great people - a huge agenda for the future.

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Our Inaugural Magazine 'Living Art' is out now - if you are a signed up member you should have received one in the post - if you didn't then please send us an email  so that we can check your details.

People are saying great things and the future is very bright. We are currently organising content and material for Issue 2 - (Feb 2008) - so if you have any ideas, suggestions or favourite artists you would like to see included - please get in touch.

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Hot off the press, the Living Art blog will keep you up to date with all the latest news, events and everything going on at Living Art.

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