About the Artist:Angela says:
"I'm a thirty three year old mum of one who has always loved trees " to
obsession", so my husband jokes. I've just started to show them twice a
year at The Childwickbury Arts Fair usually the first weekend in July
and the last weekend in November. I volunteer for the Woodland Trust,
based around the Heartwood Forest Project in Sandridge, nr St Albans and
participated in the H'Arts'wood festival there run by Louise Neicho.
That's where I grew up and the trees there in the ancient coppice were
my first subjects. Some as old as the hills, yet coppiced, so most
people don't realize.
I found your site after finding some beautiful old oaks and wanted to
know if anyone was protecting them and you were trying to, which was
great!
I now live in a village nr Dunstable and my nearest trees of significant
age and character are at The Ashridge Estate and that's where you'll
find me and my pencils and brushes most weeks. So many trees, so little
time!
The following statement is my little intro to my work at the
Childwickbury arts fair....
I paint, sketch and photograph trees wherever I am, I can't help myself
I just love them!From grand lofty Beeches to scraggy looking Oak
specimens on windswept hills. I'm not really a landscape painter I'd
describe myself as a tree biographer of sorts. There are many tales of
sketching in the woods I could tell you... Of nature unfolding and
coming out to meet you, of weasels chasing mice across my feet and deer
coming out of the shadows and not noticing I'm there.
The main reason for my tree obsession is that it never ceases to amaze
me how much we take our natural environment for granted, I hope my
painting will enable people to engage with the trees around them and the
visual drama that they create." |
