An exhibition featuring work by youngsters of Carlisle Youth Zone and professional artist Mark Gibbs will open at RSPB Geltsdale next week.
It will run from Monday, February 6 until Sunday March 19 and is a celebration of two projects.
Youngsters at Carlisle Youth Zone, aged 12 to 18, worked with Green Place to explore the Pennines by walking, canoeing and camping, earning themselves a John Muir Award.
The Pennines can be glimpsed from the top floor of Carlisle Youth Zone, but for many young people, the hills are hard to reach – which prompted the project.
The group then made bird sculptures and street art-style paintings inspired by bird identification board.
Mark is a professional artist who creates intricate animal sculptures. He said: “My art tells stories about our relationship with the natural world, history and systems of power.”
Last summer, he won a Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership micro-bursary which, funded time learning a ceramic technique from a master potter.
