Angie Rogers Artist
I'm a painter and printmaker in Yorkshire. I’d love to inspire you to make deeper connections with nature and the outdoors, through art. You will receive a Get Inspired! email on a Sunday morning each month.
Quickening Of Green
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild Bringing The Outside In. Hello and welcome! Here's a sort of Haiku I wrote after observing the mixture of dried seed heads from the previous year alongside new green growth in the hedgerows. "Winding of Winter, quickening of green, What is to come and what has been." 'Quicken' is an archaic word meaning come to life. The quick of your fingernail is the alive bed that grows. If you scrape a winter stem you can...
Its All About Water
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild Bringing The Outside In. Hello and welcome! Apologies for sending a duff link in my previous mailing. All because of missing off the little accent on the e in giclée print in the link text. Paying attention to detail is always best! Remember those lovely lichen encrusted twigs from last month's Bringing The Outside In? Well this time the focus is on moss. There's an abundance of it here in this damp valley...
Why not take it easy in January?
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild Bringing The Outside In. Hello and welcome! Don’t you get fed up with all the new year overload of advice to change/do more/make resolutions/reinvent yourself etc etc? You just end up feeling guilty. January feels like a terrible time to do anything like that here in the UK. So why not be guided instead by the seasons in your part of the world. Like the winter trees I’m planning to take it easy until the start...
Beauty In Simplicity
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild Bringing The Outside In. Hello all and welcome! I was attracted by the luminous, almost shocking autumn red of some scattered cherry tree leaves and picked them up off the rainy pavement on the way home from my studio a while ago. You might wonder at the idea of three simple leaves providing inspiration and delight? The plan was to photograph and preserve their damp vibrancy but the need to make dinner took...
A ballerina that’s neither plant nor animal.
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Just Like A Ballerina, Stepping Lightly. Did you know, fungi are neither plants nor animals but are a separate kingdom of life? Ballerina or Pink Waxcaps are rare and threatened fungi found only in a few environments such as the unimproved grasslands above Hardcastle Crags, a wooded valley in Calderdale owned by The National Trust and just down the road from my home.Earlier in the year I accepted an invitation...
Walking The Unpath
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Stepping In and Outside The Lines. Angie Rogers, Following In The Steps Of The Old Ones, Charcoal on paper, 50 x 50 cm Do you tend to prefer sticking to the path on walks? It is the best strategy for getting where you want to go of course and I’ve trod so many of the hundreds of ancient little paths that criss cross the land around my home. I know my way around. And yet sometimes a strong yearning comes to walk...
Why I used a blowtorch for my art this week.
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Why I Used A Blowtorch In My Studio This Week. I don’t know about you but I’ve always been scared of even the idea of using a blowtorch. They seem so horrifically hot and unforgiving if you make even a slight mistake. We did get a culinary one for caramelising the sugar on Crème Brûlée at home but I always chickened out. Well this week the moment of reckoning arrived, and all because I thought we should...
Preserved In Amber but not how you think.
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Preserved In Amber The amber mentioned in the title is not the precious and jewel-like substance from ancient tree resin but the beautiful colour of ink you can make from these Alder cones. I’m continuing with my project to make art materials from items growing in my local area and then use them to make art feauturing the landscape I walk through every day. In this way Nature is both the inspiration and the...
Get Inspired - Borrowed Light
Angie Rogers Artist Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild Get Inspired - Borrowed Light Hello from Upper Calderdale where the land tumbles down from the moors, through the woods to the waterways below. This is Borrowed Light, a recent charcoal drawing I’ve chosen to represent my work in the Hebden Bridge Open Studios brochure. It will be getting its first public showing on my studio wall this coming weekend. Borrowed Light, charcoal on paper, 48 x 38 cm/19 x 15 inches I am happy...
I'm a painter and printmaker in Yorkshire. I’d love to inspire you to make deeper connections with nature and the outdoors, through art. You will receive a Get Inspired! email on a Sunday morning each month.