Paintings celebrate 800 years of 'first environmental laws'

PAINTINGS celebrating 800 years of Britain's "first environmental laws" are going on display in London.

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An exhibition commemorating eight centuries of Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest is opening at the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House, London.

As part of the exhibition, Dan Llywelyn Hall, the youngest artist to paint a portrait of the late Queen, has been commissioned to produce four pictures depicting trees across Great Britain.

All the trees included in the work, entitled the Totems to the Charter, were alive at the time the Charter of the Forest was signed.

It includes one tree said to have witnessed the sealing of the first Magna Carta in 1215.