British Calendars: Beryl Cook, Manchester & Walking Landscapes
It has got to that time of year where people are getting excited about the New Years Eve celebrations and the start of 2009. With the dawn of the year people are starting to turn their attention to buying calendars for 2009. Calendarswa are a perfect gift for the New Year and there are so many calendars available that you can find one to suit anyones personality.
You usually find that you get the standard calendars featuring pin ups, football teams, animals and more but in Britain we also have quirky and unique calendars, which have become very popular. A calendar can represent the broad range of personalities that there are in the UK and the Calendar club give regular reports on what is hot and what is not in the world of calendars.
Artist calendars are very popular whether they are painted landscapes, photos of people and places, portraits or abstract art. These calendars are either a collection of individual artwork by a particular artist or a selection of art prints by a range of artists. Beryl Cook is an extremely fashionable British artist from Plymouth, that has a very popular calendar featuring Beryl Cook prints. Similar artists like Tim Bulmer and Doug Hyde also have their work featured as a collection of British artists work.
Landscapes have always been a popular choice and come in a variety of styles. There is no shortage of calendars that have photographs of areas of outstanding natural beauty in the United Kingdom and these tend to look similar to an advertisement for British walking holidays and seaside towns. There are countless examples of areas like Bournemouth beaches, folks walking in the Lancashire meadows and english castles. You will also find cityscapes featuring some of the United Kingdom’s largest cities and towns in some of the most popular streets in these locations. Newcastle, London and Manchester are often featured because they have many famous points of interest and you also get to see all the Manchester restaurants and London buses.
When it comes to quirky calendars, Britain has a history of producing interesting calendars to raise money for charity. British people also have a habit of taking their clothes off and recent additions have been the naked farmers and the nude pictures of WI members, which went on to become a film. In 2009 tractors are a popular theme, with one calendar having a different picture of a tractor for every day of the year. As well as this there are the puppies practising their yoga and water skiing and goats too are a very popular calendar to have in 2009. There is however one unstoppable calendar giant that sells by the bucket load each year and hasn’t been out of the nations favourites for the past 25 years and that man is Cliff Richard!