My deep fascination for living art went into full effect the first time I saw Andy Goldsworthy‘s work in River and Tides. I was amazed with his imagination, his patience, and his determination. His art involves the use of natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.

The idea of land art is such that sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather the landscape is the very means of their creation. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions.

I knew there had to be similar artists also working in the Land and Environmental Art realm. I came across Green Museum and found a vast amount of useful information. The site gives a listing of land artists and bios about each individual, including links and photos of their work. Written below is a snippet from Green Museum’s website:

About Us

This online museum emerged from our own experiences making environmental art and from seeing firsthand some of the challenges facing artists, community groups, nonprofit organizations and arts institutions when it came to presenting and discussing environmental art.

More than a museum, we see greenmuseum.org as a giant collaborative art-making tool. We hope you find it useful, friendly and easy to navigate. If you have any information you’d like us to know about or publish please let us know. Thank you!~

I have included a few of the artist spotlights currently on the cite. Their art work is beautiful. It is amazing to see the merging of nature and art into one life form.

Chris Booth – Growth

Abigail Doan – Foglia 04 & Crocheted Snow 01

Below are additional sites I found to be useful and well organized. Pleas make sure to check them out:

http://www.earthartists.org

http://www.artinnature.org

http://www.landarts.org

http://the-artists.org