Painting Bluebells in Shropshire

Ramblings

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare walks to a glorious display of bluebells to capture them in watercolour in the company of artist Shelly Perkins.

On a beautiful day in mid-May they set off into Mortimer Forest near Ludlow to find several acres of bluebells that stretch across high meadlowland.

Shelly is an artist and while Clare is not known for her painting prowess, they take a moment to stop, take in the bluey purply haze and capture it in vivid watercolours en plein air.

Clare and Shelly met at the Black Pool Car Park and hiked a roughly five mile circular loop through a conifer plantation, into open hay meadow with skylarks hovering overhead, and then onto a huge field full of bluebells. You can see their artwork on the Ramblings instagram page: @bbcramblings

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:39.2	The bird song's really fantastic here, isn't it?
0:42.8	I just think being in Mortimer Forest is such an atmospheric place.
0:47.4	The biodiversity is really fantastic,
0:50.3	and you've got this really lovely mix of these brooding coniferous forests
0:53.9	and really lovely, more open, deciduous woodland.
0:58.5	And at this time of year in particular,
1:00.5	the Bluebell spectacle up on high vinyls is just really, really amazing.
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