Landscape Painting & Drawing (Boots to Brushes)

Boots to Brushes

Who is it for?

Walkers
Wanderers
Artists
Thinkers
Poets
Art groups/clubs
Procrastinators
Writers

*If any of these sounds like you then you will be most welcome to join us.

Boots to Brushes is the perfect way for groups of co-workers, friends, or club members (as well as individuals) to engage in an age old tradition amongst landscape artists of mindfulness before mindfulness was even a byword for caring for your thoughts individually and collectively. Stretch your legs, enjoy a landscape and reflect on it in your own creative way.

The Experience

Boots to Brushes

Digging deep into a landscape and taking that which inspires and grabs you is not an easy process. It is however, an engagement with a space that transcends history and geological time, that is sustenance for the present and prospect for the future, no matter how the landscape may have changed.

I take my time and allow a conversation to come to the fore, teasing out what I feel is the core, the hum and energy. Feelings of confidence, playful muse, as my relationship with the landscape develops in time. Each time I open my senses to new spaces and places.

Boots to Brushes offers an open discourse between your vision and a deeper conversation with a landscape. We will discover how to recognise and translate the observed elements within a ‘place’. Being out in the landscape affords a grounding of the feet, an immersion into the elemental structures that we gently impress upon. The journey in the landscape follows ancient paths of understanding. Through the sediment and layers of weathered age and rock; folds and faults, ancient muds, sands and wood, concrete or stone. Living in grander cycles, affording a sense of place.

Our vision and feel for the landscape is poetic. In taking this journey with us your vision will be broadened; your breath deepened; and finding a sense of space and place through sketches of trails and tales told.

On the day

A gentle wander through a contrasting landscape where Wendy and Robin will share their expertise and passion for the landscape allowing ideas to inspire you. Plenty of pauses for drawing and insightful thoughts.

We begin the day at 10am and carry all that we will require for a full day out in the landscape. Food and drink needs to be brought along. As we will be walking in fairly undulating terrain, suitable footwear and clothing for the outdoors must be worn. We aim to complete the walk, talk and draw by around 3pm. We have planned numerous walks throughout some stunning local landscape specific information will be sent to you on request.

For further details please complete the enquiry form below and we will get in touch with you personally.

The Artist Wanderers

Wendy Connelly

I look upon a landscape and wait, it takes time and patience to find my eyes for a place. A landscape never reveals itself without study and observation, looking at its textures and movement, feeling it’s warmth and the pace of its breath. I open all my senses and wait for notes from the place; sketches pick points from the land; discarding manmade paths or finding the push of water or wind that can carry a bold mark through a sketch. I take notes. Pick words from my response to the weather, light or the sounds that surround me. A few markers, sketches and annotations will form the journey and cut the path through the shapes and textures of the land.

Robin Bailey

My bookshelves are crammed full of well thumbed travel books. Extensive journeys across some of the more inhospitable places this earth has to offer fill the reader, myself included, with a wonder and an awestruck intrigue, if not a little envy. Yet it is the journeys one can commence from your own front door which have a special place in my heart. There are so many special places in the British Isles that one could spend many lifetimes exploring them. We revisit places at different times of the year and experience nuances, subtle changes of a familiar place, that refill our soul with a renewed energy. I have and will continue to seek places that fill me with this feeling. I am lucky to have travelled to many far flung places, but it is the places closer to home that enrich me the most.

When I walk and wander through a landscape I picture the geographical relevance and the underlying geology that has influenced the current surface features and human activities that may have once been active. With a scientific slant and a poetic finish I immerse myself into the wild of my mind as I traverse ancient paths across soul easing landscapes.