Published monthly, The Guide provides a blend of technical content and advice, regulatory updates, project case studies and the latest Land Studio news.

At Land Studio we have a long-standing track record in the leisure sector and expertise working on new lodge, static, touring and glamping parks across the UK alongside the upgrading and extension of existing sites. Over the past decade, we have delivered over 120 parks.

In this month's issue of The Guide we consider the importance of taking a whole site approach from biodiversity to drainage for caravan parks.

We also look at the changes coming to planning policies and the impact they will have on caravan sites.

In other news, we’re delighted to have won two new pieces of work in South Wales working with the Vale of Glamorgan Council on Conservation Management Plans for two Registered Parks and Gardens.

Landscape Architect Claudia Frost relaxes outside of work by painting using a 2,000-year-old beeswax technique. 

Claudia, who moved to the UK from America, paints with encaustic, a 2,000-year-old painting technique using beeswax mixed with pigments and damar resin, which is then heated and worked on a hard surface.

Between June 13-14 and 20-21, Claudia’s work will be part of an open studios event and a group show at the Willow Gallery in Oswestry from 2nd May to 27th June. 

Here she talks about what inspired one of her pieces, a quadriptych entitled ‘Nebulae’.

Claudia said: “This piece is quite different from a lot of my work in that it’s not a landscape - either abstract or representational as I do both.

“I started by painting the four pieces taped together. If you ‘reassemble’ it like a puzzle you will see that they match up. However I wasn’t happy with that particular layout and like this reorganisation of the images better. 

“I work intuitively and it’s hard to say what inspires me. I don’t put a lot of thought into it beforehand if I’m honest, preferring to just let the work evolve.

“I love encaustic painting because it’s so very tactile and textural. If you’ve ever played with the wax from a candle, you know what I mean. It’s soft and malleable and yet also has a form.

“Encaustic work is difficult, and I still don’t feel I’ve mastered it, but I just keep going because it’s very enjoyable. Most people who work in this medium say they easily get lost in the process. It’s also nice because you can scrape and rework a piece endlessly unless you incorporate other materials such as oil paint.”

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