Living Art http://www.living-art.org.uk/ Living Art Gareth Spenceley http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Gareth_Spenceley/ Im a Graphic Design Student in Sheffield. Thoroughly inspired by Design, Photography and Art. Always in and around the Peak District... for both work and play!

]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:50:14 GMT fitnessfemmwv http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/fitnessfemmwv/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:31:25 GMT Antony Lee http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Antony_Lee/ I make my living as a tree surgeon in and around Worcestershire and the South Midlands. I do sell some Photos mostly through online Stock photographic libraries but my motivation is to capture on film or digital the landscape as I see it.

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:15:48 GMT sannitta http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/sannitta/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:26:15 GMT Vicky http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Vicky/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:58:57 GMT Peter Roworth http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Peter_Roworth/ During my career in nature conservation I have been lucky and had many photographs used in leaflets, books, exhibitions and illustrated talks. I have learnt and practised photography through trial and error...making many mistakes on the way! Progress is through determination, being a good editor and admiring the works of other photographers. During the past few years my wife and I have had published through Halsgrove Publishers several books depicting the landscape and buildings of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Currently I am interested in the finer detail of landscape and habitats, often trying to look for and portray the more intriguing aspect of light with texture, pattern and form.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:20:57 GMT ilmcrae http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/ilmcrae/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:21:41 GMT one choice art http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/one_choice_art/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:22:43 GMT Karen Frenkel http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Karen_Frenkel/ Karen Frenkel
Karen is a professional landscape photographer and writer living in the Peak District National Park. With her ever growing collection of around 12,000 images, 7,000 of which are of the Peak District, she is one of the leading landscape photographers covering this area. The other areas covered in her library range from Patagonia in Chile, Pakistan, Philippines and across to Corsica, Spain and the Italian Dolomites.

An initial career as a research chemist financed her real passion for travel, the outdoors and landscape photography. With a move back to her native Derbyshire in 1993 and inspired by the beautiful scenery of the Peak District, her landscape photography skills, instilled into her by her father at an early age, were developed further. At the age of 12 she had been given her first SLR camera and loved to follow her father onto the hills and back to the darkroom to watch the pictures magically reappear back onto paper.

In 1996 following the success of many picture sales both to the public and publishers, she gave up her work in chemistry and started a full time career in landscape photography. Karen's photographs regularly feature in magazines, books, calendars, cards, posters and advertising material. Her work is divided between illustrative and her more interpretative style which is better suited for fine art prints.

In 2000 her first book, The Rambler's Guide to the Peak District, written by Roly Smith, was published by Harper Collins and is illustrated entirely by Karen's images. The work was highly commended in the Year 2000 OWG Photographic Awards. Since then she has been asked to work on other books which are currently under publication.

In addition to her published work, Karen runs a small, handmade greetings card business based in the Peak District. She also gives illustrated talks and sells some of her work as hand prints to galleries.

Most of Karen's work is taken using 35mm Nikon equipment and also Mamiya 6x6 and 6x4.5 medium format cameras, primarily using 50ASA Fuji Velvia film. This film gives very fine grain and saturated colours for optimum quality landscapes. Consequently, a sturdy tripod is needed for most of her work. She prefers to use natural light and only a minimal use of filters, namely polarising, grey graduate and warm-up filters if necessary.

Karen Frenkel's website http://www.karenfrenkel.info/

 

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:03:50 GMT Ann Whitfield http://www.living-art.org.uk/Members/Ann_Whitfield/ I was born in the North of England, but exiled to the far south by the demands of family and work for twenty years. I returned in 2002 and now live in Teesdale in the North Pennines.

I am totally inspired and exhilarated by the drama and bleakness of the landscape of the hills. I seek to share the sense of awe and joy it evokes, rather than taking a purely illustrative approach. The paintings feature the high moors and fells, and are often appreciated by walkers, climbers and others who have an intimate knowledge of the landscape.

I work from sketches and photographs, making further drawings in the studio before embarking on a painting in acrylics. I paint on paper, and often used collage to build up textures and create highlights. I love to use clear, bright colours straight from the tube, adding depth to layers of transparent paints. Other media are often incorporated, most often charcoal and soft or oil pastels.

Although I have been painting for many years, I began to paint professionally in 2008, and have been part of the Teesdale Open Studios and the Teesdale Artists' Network since their inception. I have exhibited at many venues throughout the North East, and also have pictures on permanent display at my home in Barnard Castle.

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