On Friday 25 August, the Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery Project, put on a free artist workshop event with the help of Tricolor, who are working on the public engagement aspects of our Landscape Recovery project. 

The workshop, guided by talented local art extraordinaire John Parker, gave the opportunity for local artists to enjoy a sunny morning on Wortham Ling (near Roydon and Diss) on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, using the medium of paint to investigate the detail and colours of an August landscape. 

By the end of the workshop, everyone had produced their own painting using acrylic or watercolour - and the group reflected upon how they envisage landscape-scale changes to look. They talked throughout the morning about how the chaotic mosaic of scrub, trees, grass, wetland, and heath make a functional landscape and that, whilst a challenge to paint, has value for biodiversity and the climate. Further discussion was had about how a restored landscape creates ecosystem services what they provide to the people living nearby.

As our WaLOR project evolves, we hope to put on more events like this in the future, to help connect local people to their landscape, which we hope to see restored through our approach to DEFRA’s Landscape Recovery pilot program.

Find out more about the Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery Project