Angie Rogers Artist

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Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild

Bringing The Outside In.

Hello and welcome!

Don't you think there's something beautiful about Cow Parsley, Hog Weed and other similar Umbel wild flowers that is not in any way diminished by their ubiquity at certain times of year, such as now in the Calder Valley.

The simplicity of frothy white flowers on tall stems with feathery green leaves is delightfully refreshing. I can't resist bringing some home with me and you can enjoy the challenge of arranging them to appear nonchalant in glass vases. They are very photogenic. But oh dear, they have an unfortunate disadvantage. When these particular blooms are brought indoors you gradually notice a pungent and unpleasant odour - if you know, you know!

One solution if you are lucky enough to have a gazebo or even a garden table is to place them outside somewhere you can still view them from inside.

I'm thinking that Hog Weed is the worst as currently the Cow Parsley I picked to photograph for you is being well behaved.

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A New Greetings Card I've made

If you send greetings cards, you might be interested in a new card I've designed and had printed. The design is created from a collage of hand-coloured woodcuts and features a Twite, the little moorland bird that is threatened owing to habitat change. If the farmers mow their upland meadows too soon, the Twite has no food as it relies solely on seeds.

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'Twite In The Moorland Meadows' is available mail order from my website shop in the Cards And Gifts section. There are now 6 different cards depicting wildlife I've seen here in the South Pennines.

On The Cover Of A New Book

I was delighted to be approached by Little Toller Books to use my woodcut print of Autumn in Walshaw Dean for the cover of a new book about peatland and bogs.
Little Toller Books is a small independent publishing company based in Dorset which is

"attuned to writers and artists who seek inventive ways to reconnect us with the natural world and to celebrate the places we live in."

The Book Of Bogs has contributions from more than forty writers steeped in the landscape of the moors, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy LIptrot, Guy Shrubsole and Alys Fowler.
An anthology of poetry, stories and essays from deep in the peatlands. A collection of nature, of history, of myth.

I must admit to feeling quite proud to be associated with this publication which has been initiated in response to a dire threat to the magnificent SSSI Walshaw moor, in the form of a completely inappropriate and huge industrial wind farm complex which will destroy an enormous area of precious blanket bog and the literary landscape of the Brontës.

I would point out that there are already 3 significant wind farms spoiling the landscape round here. Why should we have another one? What makes our moor less worthy of saving than say the extensive grounds of Blenheim Palace or Sandringham for example?

For anyone interested in learning more you can read the cogent arguments on the website https://www.stopcalderdalewindfarm.co.uk/
​Basically summed up as "A Hostile Act against the countryside, wildlife and people of Calderdale and Brontë Country by Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd."

A crowdfunded initiative, the Book Of Bogs is available to pre-order from https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/little-toller/the-book-of-bogs-edited-by-anna-chilvers-and-clare-shaw/ and is £20.

A Pebble In The Pond Makes Ripples

I like to think of this monthly email I send you as a small pebble gently dropped into the pond of your consciousness in the hope of creating some entertaining ripples. So it's always great when the ripples are reflected back.

Thanks to lovely supporters Annie, Rod, Kate, Janet, Alice and John who responded to my previous email. Your enthusiasm and encouragement is truly appreciated by me. The nest theme was especially popular.

We are about to enter the month of June, surely one of the loveliest, certainly in the UK.
So I wish you all a wonderful late spring moving into high summer. I hope your leaves are verdant and your blossoms abundant.
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All the best
Angie

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