Hello and a warm welcome to my new website! Thank you for visiting. Here's a bit about me... Amanda Willoughby is an award-winning artist with an interest in botanical illustration as a means of drawing attention to the beauty and necessity of plants and the importance of their conservation. Amanda's work has been awarded the Certificate of Botanical Merit by the Society of Botanical Artists and the Lyra Award by the UK Coloured Pencil Society. She has also won two Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medals (for excellent draughtsmanship and painting skills coupled with scientific accuracy) for two series of illustrations entitled "Rare and Endangered Cornfield Flowers" and "Plants of the Urban Wasteland". Amanda shows her work on both a national and local level and her illustrations have been featured in a number of national magazines and newspapers. She works to commission and can be contacted on the link below. Left: Here I am on nature study in Upper Weardale! - November 2009 Right: Detail from Autumn Leaves (pencil on paper) by Amanda Willoughby (copyright 1996).

Princess Tallulah Publications presents CAPTURING THE BEAUTY OF WEARDALE A 2012 calendar by Amanda Willoughby I am always joyfully inspired by the nature and changing seasons of Weardale and my calendar features illustrations, photographs and written impressions of some of my walks. Westgate Winter Wonderland ...an overnight cascade of powdery snow has covered the dale in a sparkling blanket of sorbet... Stanhope Spring The valley vistas are viridian once again... A Daddry Shield Summer Saunter Golden summer meadows, glowing with the rainbow colours of a million wildflowers... A Shady Secret - Low Slitt Wood, Waterfalls and Mine Rushing tea-stained water crashes over jet-black rocks... Autumn Amble from Wolsingham Station ...the trees are ablaze in the evening sunlight. Tow Law Winter Walk ...the snow has drifted into rifts and ridges and moulded into milky-white mounds of icy incandescence... A Wild Westgate Garden A host of glorious flowers ran rampant... and A Year in Upper Weardale ...a heightened dream of a laughing and gurgling river... The calendar has 26 high quality, full colour, comb-bound, A4 pages and costs £14.99 plus £1.99 postage. Please order below via Paypal secure payment or click Contact Amanda, at the foot of this page, to send a UK cheque. Your calendar will be posted one day after receipt of a Paypal payment or three days after the receipt of a cheque. STOP PRESS! Due to overwhelming demand and requests from people who missed it last year, my 2012 calendar has been re-released as a 2013 calendar, but with some new illustrations and extra photographs. The months are also divided into plant habitats, as well as specific Weardale walks. Click here for more information on the new calendar. Thank you! Amanda x

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