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.
Metamorphosis With Peacock Wings
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. An Altercation With A Clapper Bridge. Hello from the hills and valleys of Calderdale. A wily old clapper bridge tried to kill me early in August, trolls not required. Simple, ancient water crossings made of stone slabs are commonly found on the moorlands of Britain and there are a couple near Hebden Bridge. The one I nearly fell out with/off of, is a 17th century structure over Colden Clough, and part of the...
Dappled July
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Dappled July Warm greetings from the upper Calder Valley. It’s been quite a hot month hasn’t it? Dappled woodland is a great environment for summer walks don’t you think? The cooling shade of the leaf canopy with the feeling of moist green life, but not dark; pools of sparkling light illuminating the way. I’ve been on a few mini adventures exploring new to me woodland paths on sides of local valleys I’ve never...
Tasting The Landscape
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED Connecting you to Landscape, Nature and The Wild. Taste The Landscape. Greetings from Calderdale in June, possibly the loveliest month for verdancy in nature, or do you have a different favourite? Moving through landscape in the fullness of summer, there’s the potential for sensory overload in a good way. This is especially true if you are walking alone as without the distraction of conversation with a companion, your experience of place is even more intense...
A Beauty With An Unfortunate Odour.
Angie Rogers Artist GET INSPIRED 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...
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...
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.