A new Lake District exhibition of pencil drawings celebrate the great trees of Cumbria.
Artist Tony Galuidi has spent years seeking out the county’s trees and produced the pencil drawings, which are on show at Brantwood in Coniston until August 10.
Tony said: “‘Creating the drawings is very intensive work but hunting for these awesome, characterful giants has been such a joy and learning how so many of these veteran trees are interwoven with our lives and social histories has been a revelation.”
Trees featured in the exhibition include Wordsworth’s fabled yews in Borrowdale, which are over 2,000 years old, the Grand Fir in Stagshaw gardens, which is the tallest tree in Cumbria and the tallest of its species in the UK, the Rebel Tree, in Clifton, a 300-year-old oak that conceals the bodies of soldiers that fell during the last battle on English soil and Tom Fool’s tree at Muncaster.
