Critically acclaimed and award-winning outdoors filmmaker Terry Abraham and producer of the BBC hit ‘Life of a Mountain Scafell Pike’ and ‘Life of a Mountain Blencathra’ can often be found in a tent atop the fells capturing Lakeland at its best. His love and passion for the fells is second…
Phil is a poet, keen fell walker, cyclist and amateur naturalist. His writing is influenced by the landscape and moving through it. He is published in poetry magazines, journals – including the Wainwright Society’s ‘Footsteps’ – and anthologies. He is a keen field-identifier, skilled at bringing the overlooked and unseen…
Rod Ireland is a professional photographer living and working in the Lake District. He runs photography courses and sells his landscape work. Rod has held a number of photography exhibitions including “The Lake District by Night” which was acclaimed for providing a unique perspective on a much loved and familiar…
Paul Nichol is an experienced field mycologist having worked in adult education for Nottingham University and the WEA where he taught Field Mycology and has taught for the FSC for many years. He has been involved with the setting up of Fungi study groups in Nottinghamshire and Cumbria, in Cumbria…
James Merryweather is the author of two FSC AIDGAP field guides: a comprehensive key to all British pteridophytes and a folding chart that covers 38 common ferns. He has been teaching fern identification and ecology since he first came to the Blencathra Centre, shortly after publication of The Fern Guide…
Alan Goodall was born and lives in West Yorkshire. He is well known amongst the art community. Following a career in interior design, he has built up an excellent reputation for his expertise in the technique of watercolour painting. Self-taught Alan has exhibited widely, including numerous shows for the British…
Thomas Plunkett studied Fine Art and English Literature at the University of Chester and a PGCE in Art and Design at The UCL Institute of Education,University of London. Thomas is a highly experienced teacher of art and watercolour and drawing techniques and teaches many workshops throughout the year. Thomas has…
Ros Tratt is a freelance ecologist, and part-time tutor at the University of Sheffield Department for Life-long learning. She has many years’ experience as a wetland ecologist, and has studied numerous wetlands in Britain.
Penny Hunt has taught art for over 25 years as well as creating her own work from her studio in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Her work is about the little things that make up that landscape of freedom, the places where you feel the full force of wind and weather…
Led by Richard Peasland.