Bloc Projects Open Studios..

photos courtesy of Jordanna at www.artistsinthemaking.co.uk

Adventures in Mind by Heather Dawe

"Each of us is only here for a brief time. Part of why I find contentment when high in mountains is because I find their age, their relatively infinite nature, reassuring. I am just a flash in the pan compared to the Cumbrian fells or the jagged, snow-capped Alps. I don't find that a depressing thought. While the mountains remind me of my mortality and fallibility, they also put my fears and worries into context. The stark reality that strikes me when surrounded by beautiful towering peaks is that nothing really matters. This serves to remind me to make the best of everything, enjoy the moment, indulge the good and forget the bad. I'm only around for the blink of an eye. Make it count." 
Adventures in Mind by Heather Dawe

http://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/biography/adventures-in-mind-a-personal-obsession-with-the-mountains.html

Wilderness

"The wilderness is not a landscape you visit, it is all around you wherever you are. We persuade ourselves that our taming of the world is profound we lay water mains and sewers and read thousand year old books, we drive our autobahns through solid rock, we huddle together in caves lit by the incandescence of the television screens. We do everything we can to be safe, and still the planet spins, the winds roar, the great ice caps creak and heave,the continental plates shudder and bring cities crashing to the ground the viruses infect us and the oceans toy with us, lapping against the edges of our precarious land. We are in the midst of wilderness even curled up in our lover's bed."

Paul Shepheard 'The Cultivated Wilderness'

drawing in the sunshine

Millstone sketches, The Peak District

Patti Smith talk

Long ink drawing of Stanage Edge

Another drawing of Stanage Edge up on my website http://www.tessalyons.co.uk/stanage-edge-the-peak-district/

This was drawn sitting outside crouched behind a drystone wall, failing to take shelter from the wind...