The Loving Earth Project
celebrates some of the wonderful things threatened by looming environmental breakdown: the people, places, creatures, and other things we love. It can help people to face up to this creatively and to take action without being overwhelmed. By focusing on one thing we love , we can explore how our own activities influence their future, and choose to act accordingly. It’s also a community art project that has linked people from communities in many parts of the world, through making and displaying over 500 textile art panels, sharing our love for the world and many things we are doing to care for it.
This video introduces the project. the project starts with some very simple questions and suggests ways to explore them creatively especially through making a textile art panel. Our Resource page offers meditations to help reflect on these questions and practical guidance on making the textile panels. Many of the panels that people have made can be seen on the Gallery page, and we also have photos illustrating the variety of exhibitions and workshops that people have organised. Some of the textile panels are still available on loan for exhibitions or other events, while others have been returned to their makers,
The Loving Earth Project is one of the projects held by the Quaker Arts Network . It started in 2019 and was listed among “the best cultural events in Scotland for COP26” and continued .until the end of 2025. It has given people “great joy and hope” as well as being “thought-provoking”, “empowering”, “inspiring” and “a warning”. More about the history and organisation of the LEP is here and about the QAN here. You can email QAN at quakerartsuk@gmail.com.
Climate breakdown and extinctions are happening all over the world. The urgency of action and adaptation to this reality has never been greater. Let us be inspired and supported by Love.