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Aug 5, 2019
3 min

Issue 29 Bryn y Fan

If you were informed by a visitor to these shores that he is about to visit the Lakes, it would be reasonable for you to believe that he...

Jane

Jul 1, 2019
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

Memories of an Uncertain Future Brenk House Farm is a small tenant farm in North Yorkshire. It has provided a welcoming and safe home for...

Graham

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

Issue 28 Garreg-hir

It is often the case with the lesser visited hills that the way to the starting point is as much of a challenge as the ascent itself. In...

Jane

Jun 12, 2019
1 min

MA - International Art Residency

As part of my MA I visited Tenno in Northern Italy on an art residency and created work in reponse to the place. My art work was shown as...

Jane

Jun 12, 2019
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

I have created a series of maps to share collective memories of the farm. I have incorportated events and memories into the topological...

Graham

Jun 12, 2019
3 min

Issue 27 A Hill with a View

Little hills grab the best views. It was with this thought that I began my ascent of Allt yr Esgair from the car park of the local...

Graham

Apr 30, 2019
2 min

Issue 26 - The Early Bird

The particular worm on offer is the Marilyn that, because of its relative isolation, doesn’t easily combine with others of that ilk to...

Jane

Apr 30, 2019
1 min

Art Club - Take A Walk

I took a walk around the neighbourhood, collecting pieces of rubbish I found on my way. I created a small fold out map of my journey

Jane

Apr 1, 2019
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

My exploration of the farm also includes its current social, political and economic context. I am concentrating on the farm's sustainable...

Graham

Apr 1, 2019
3 min

Issue 25 - Hail Storm Hill

You can’t say you weren’t warned. If you insist on visiting this part of the world in the middle of March, both Hail Storm and its...

Jane

Mar 2, 2019
1 min

MA A Sense of Place

I have been exploring the history of the farm and how to share these glimpses of history. The farm has been inhabited by Romans and monks...

Graham

Mar 2, 2019
2 min

Issue 24 YET ANOTHER WASTE LAND

Whatever Tom Eliot might have believed about April, it is hard to deny that February offers little in the way of the milk of human...

Jane

Feb 4, 2019
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

I have been looking how the farm carries out sustainable farming practices to support local wildlife in particular creating optimal...

Graham

Feb 4, 2019
4 min

Issue 23 Birth of a Bagger

Throughout my early walking and climbing days I visited the summits of a number of, depending on your viewpoint, mountains or hills. Not...

Jane

Jan 2, 2019
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

I am looking at the current use of the farm by looking at maps of the farm. I am interested in the field shapes and and experimenting...

Graham

Jan 2, 2019
3 min

Issue 22 Winter-Quarters

One of the somewhat dubious advantages of a classical education is the ability to render sentences like, Caesar, having given the...

Graham

Dec 3, 2018
4 min

Issue 21 DONE AND DUSTED

Sir Hugh Munro probably didn’t realise what he had started when, in 1981, he submitted his Tables of the 3000-feet Mountains of Scotland...

Jane

Nov 30, 2018
1 min

MA - A Sense of Place

My MA project involves creating a Sense of a Place. I am beginning to create work based on a small tenant farm in North Yorkshire. This...

Jane

Oct 29, 2018
1 min

Art Club - Inspiration 2

We decided to repeat the idea of giving each other two artists for inspiration. I was given Maxine Sutton a textile artist who uses bold...

Graham

Oct 29, 2018
3 min

Issue 20 The Three Peaks of Yorkshire

As any fule kno Yorkshire has three peaks. They are Pen y Ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside and they are universally known as THE THREE...

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