Directory: ENVIRONMENT ART & DESIGN

 
     _{LANDSCAPE & GARDEN-BASED ARTISTS:}

::  Angela Munslow - garden artist; maker of large-scale figurative water-features and statues.

::  Phil Hardaker - a mosaic maker from Stoke.

::  Carved Decorative Fence Tops - based in Leek.

::  Stonefaces - creative stone carving, based in Leek.

::  George Holden - craft potter & sculptor based in Stone.

::  Johanna Hallsten - creates subtle artistic interventions in gardens. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Sue Blatherwick - creates ceramic outdoor wall-plates, and is also a site-specific environment-artist. Based in Leek.

::  Futurilla - can create temporary hill-figures & temporary field-mazes. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.

  Church Wall Gargoyles - based in Cheadle. Creator of the statues at the Alton Towers Hotel and stone carvings in Ugland & Alice in Wonderland at Alton Towers. Church Wall also run classes at The Potters Barn.

     _{LANDSCAPE DESIGN:}

::  Pickard - a major creative landscape design consultancy, based at Eccleshall near Stone. A Chelsea Flower Show medal winner. Currently designing a large Sculpture Garden to display the major works of Dame Elizabeth Frink.

::  Wardell Armstrong - large Landscape Architecture consultancy, based at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Consultancy services in landscape design.

::  FFC Landscape Architects.

::  Signature Gardens.

::  Keele University offers a professional in-house KUDIS map-making & landscape visualisation service.

  Charlotte Gordon - creative garden designer, based at Cheddleton near Leek.

     _{ORGANISATIONS:}

::  Association of Professional Landscapers - based between Leek and Uttoxeter.

::  The Basketmaker's Association - based in Eccleshall, near Stone.

::  Dane Valley Coppice Crafts Group - based at Brereton Country Park & Alsager.

::  WIRE Staffordshire (Women in Rural Enterprise).

::  The Sensory Garden Project is a local creative garden started in 1999, and designed specifically to be "Positive About Disabled People".

::  Rural Education & Arts Project - based in Longnor, Staffordshire. REAP is based around celebrating hill-farming life and rural regeneration in North Staffordshire & The Peak District. REAP is also the contact for the Rural Crafts Revival Project.

::  The Green Wood Trust - the national rural crafts organisation, based just 20 miles from Stoke in nearby Telford.

     _{ENVIRONMENT-RELATED TRAINING for creatives::}

::  Peak District Photography Centre - residential photography courses with experienced tutors. The Peak District National Park begins just nine miles from Stoke-on-Trent, and is one of the most popular rural/wilderness areas in the world, welcoming 22 million visitors each year.

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::  The Green Wood Trust - a nationally important rural crafts organisation, based just 20 miles from Stoke in nearby Telford. The Trust runs around 40 courses a year, including regular coracle making workshops.

::  Creeping Toad provide environment-based arts training in Staffordshire.

::  Survival School Staffordshire - offer fascinating woodland skills courses, which would inspire any artist or writer.

::   Rodbaston College in Penkridge sometimes offers courses in Willow Sculpture. Several F.E. Colleges in Staffordshire offer a Diploma in Garden Design.

::   www.countryside.gov.uk has placed numerous high-quality textbooks in rural-crafts production online, for free, as e-books (see the "Training in Crafts" section).