KNITTED LANDSCAPE is about knitting, art, inspiration, landscape, beauty, humour, nature, photography, imagination, make people smile. Dutch artists Jan ter Heide and Evelien VerkerkTheir primary goal was to produce something soft and positive as a reaction to all of the bad things happening around the world (including Holland, where they live). have been working together since 1994.

Jan ter Heide and Evelien Verkerk have both always used textiles, and so knitting came as a natural thing to do. They started to knit for Knitted Landscape in July 2006. Jan was going to Ireland and Evelien was going to France when they had the idea of knitting an object and leaving it at a beautiful spot for somebody to find. In a way, the presence of an alien object, such as a knitting-covered stone, changes the way you look at the landscape. After that, the idea evolved into knitting flowers, mushrooms etc.

The labels attached to the items give the name of the website where all of the photos are published. The handmade feeling of the knitted items, plus the idea that someone is crazy enough to spend 'valuable' time to make such things, gives something extra to the objects.

In a way, a person who finds one of the items gets a handmade gift, which makes it very special.

On the website they can also discover that they are part of a worldwide art project. Initially the artists acted anonymously but in September 2007 they had their ‘coming out’ because of their exhibition with the photos from Knitted Landscape and other knitted objects. Although they personally visited most of the locations on the website, sometimes they ask people to take a knitted item with them on a trip and then send them the photos. After their exhibition received media attention, they received lots of photos from other people of their own knitted items.