Henry Monnington's Landscape Blog

A drawing of John Westwood- sketched with alcohol markers. He is a football fan who lives and breathes Portsmouth FC.

Across the globe, loneliness is an on ongoing public health issue, with long-term loneliness believed to contribute to dementia, depression and early mortality  (Campaign to End Loneliness, 2021) . As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, loneliness has become a more pervasive issue. According to a study taken in November 2020, 1 in 4 adults had felt feelings of loneliness in the previous two weeks  (Mental Health Foundation, 2021) . This essay will explore how the Landscape Architecture profession can help to combat this.   COVID-19 has forced people to find new ways to socialise, leading to an increased use of technology for this purpose. However, a survey of 500 people over the age of 70, has found ‘28% of respondents aren’t confident using technology’  (Elder, 2021) . Further research shows that 1 in 3 elderly people are lonelier in the wake of COVID-19’  (Elder, 2021) . The gap in digital literacy among the over 70s is likely to make it more difficult for t...

A self-portrait drawn while facing a mirror. Drawn with charcoal on tracing paper.

Here are various patterns and sketches, in different mediums, from over the past few months.

Some quick sketches of some wood pigeon outside of my bedroom window. They are regularly sat around my garden and have nested in the hawthorn tree- much to my mums disgust. 

Some sketching I did on my train journey from Cheltenham to Birmingham. Lady Godiva looks like she may have fallen face first off that horse a few times...

A pattern, drawn in grey pen, inspired from the feather arrangement and beak texture/pattern of a pelican I photographed in Birdland, Bourton-on-the-Water.