Our collaboration began in the mid 1980s when we worked for Avon County Council’s Conservation Department, conceiving and realising creative ideas for transforming spaces and ways to engage people with the environment. Our arts-based interpretive ideas led to the setting up of Changing Places Environmental Arts Trust of which we were co-founders. Many projects were to follow.

Ruth Coleman
Ruth currently combines her work as an associate with providing educational consultancy and web support to two west country based television companies making programmes for Teachers TV. She is a former Education Guardian columnist with English Language and Literature textbooks published by Hodder & Stoughton and WHSmith. PR and media skills have been put to use across the 16 websites she has written, edited and/or managed. Ruth also runs training courses in Writing for the Web at Bristol’s Watershed Media Centre and City of Bristol College. Ruth is an ex-teacher who steered Environmental Education and Policy for the former Avon County Council as environmental awareness came onto the public sector agenda.

Peter Milner
Peter has acted as a consultant adviser on the use of landscape as well as a designer of outdoor spaces in rural areas and challenging inner city environments. He has coordinated projects to integrate arts and crafts into both landscape and new buildings. The basis of all this work has been a curiosity about places, the way people use them and stories they tell about them.

For many years Peter was production designer for Travelling Light Theatre Company – issue based theatre for young people. He has worked on numerous projects with local authorities, architects, educational institutions and other bodies in the south west. Roles include artist/designer co-ordinator for the River Parrett Trail, Somerset; high street regeneration, Bedminster, South Bristol; Rainbow Woods regeneration and interpretation, Bath; City of Bristol College new campus, central Bristol. He is a writer, artist and graphic designer in his own right.