Posted by Woll on September 08, 2011 at 04:45:20 user Woll.
In Reply to: Brantwood exhibition posted by Duncan on September 02, 2011 at 13:18:45:
I found the exhibition extremely interesting - a pity you missed it. It was great to see the various states/developments of the illustrations in his notebooks, surrounded by related physical objects.
I only managed to get to the last talk, about the maps for the Swallows and Amazons series, which was very interesting. I especially liked Geraint's more technical talk about the (im)practicalities of the mapping described in 'Secret Water'.
It reminded me of when I must have been about 10 years old and my older brother made an alidade and we mapped our garden (which I can only think must have been prompted by him reading 'Secret Water').
This document has some interesting details about surveying with an alidade:
http://www.scotlandsruralpast.org.uk/pdfs/SRP_Fieldmanual_small.pdf