Rollright stones

I saw this image and loved it - it was taken by Aerial Cam, who I have worked with before. They turn up with a landrover, with a telescopic pole mounted camera and take very good oblique aerial photos (altho' they do a lot more than that, to see the full list click on http://www.aerial-cam.co.uk/). I just think that this single image tells a tale about the physical setting of the monument in rolling hills, and also the prevalence of oilseed rape and the contrast of the green grass of the monument... The Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, the English Midlands (border with Warwickshire). Archaeologist George Lambrick investigated these in the 1980s, he has subsequently advised the (Irish) Heritage Council on Historic Landscape Characterisation and multi-disciplinary professional development, which I contributed the delivering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/360/rollright_stones.shtml Panorama

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Stonehenge, Northern Ireland conflict and Epping Forest

Thanks to 
http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/views-of-stonehenge-henry-mark-anthony-1817-1886/

and thanks to Wolvo Art Gallery staff, who I met down the Halfway House / Tettenhall Road....

Henry Mark Anthony (1817-1886) was considered in his time the second best British landscape artist after John Constable. He exhibited at many major art institutions and travelled widely, being credited with being one of the first to introduce to Britain the en plein air style of painting advocated by the Impressionists – Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. Working outdoors and direct from nature, he painted on the large scale, introducing into painted landscape melancholic mood, nostalgic feelings, and atmospheric effects often enhanced by the light of dawn or early evening. However, new developments in British art after 1860, and his failure to be elected to the Royal Academy, led to a solitary later career.

The above depiction of Stonehenge and a number of his other works can be seen at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

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PS - they've a significant Northern Ireland collection too (dave)

http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/collections/browse_collections/art/northern_ireland/000165.html

mood still melancholic... bit of a theme

And 19th-century landscapes

In Epping Forest by Benjamin Shipham, Oil on Canvas, Mid 19th Century
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/collections/browse_collections/art/victorian_landscapes/000634.html


...at last "bucolic"