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Climbing and Art

• August 2011
• Simple Living Climb Travel

Hi Steph,
I bought your book last year, I love it and often read it as a source of inspiration. I’m a climber and an artist, I draw really massive scale landscapes averaging about 2 metres wide. I’m inspired by being outside in beautiful places and i love how rock climbing can feed into my work in this way.

I dream of traveling the world climbing and drawing the land i experience. Sometimes it doesn’t seem possible and i feel all disillusioned with my ambitions. This has been the case recently so I have been rereading your book which has inspired me to keep pursuing my dreams and reminded me that we can adapt our lives to make ourselves happy. We don’t really need to live in a nice house and hold down a good job and we can live off surprisingly little as long as we are happy, so there is hope for the future!
Just wanted to let you know your words are inspiring, keep on writing!
Tessa
p.s. I’ve attached one of my drawings of the Lake District and one of the Blue Mountains in Australia, more of my work is up on my website www.tessalyons.co.uk if you are interested 🙂

Dear Tessa,
Thank you for writing, and for your beautiful drawings!

Two of my favorite artists, Jeremy Collins and Renan Ozturk, are serious climbers who have also pursued both climbing and their art, without compromise. I hope you will keep following your dreams, and that they will take you to even more beautiful places 🙂
Steph