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A commission from Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 2001-3 to produce new work about an area of grouse moorland in North Yorkshire. These photographs are my personal response to the people and landscape of Nidderdale. Although the views in Nidderdale are spectacular, I enjoy photographing details which otherwise might remain unnoticed. The peat lines on the gamekeepers hands showing a lifetime of work on the moor, the different cloth caps of the farmer and his two sons concentrating on the job in hand and the way the grouse beater ties his flag to the stick as it has been done for generations are all things which interest me. In each photograph I have also tried to include an element of the landscape. This might be an expanse of open moorland or it could just be a glimpse of a drystone wall or barn in the background. This work was exhibited at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate in 2004 and was part of the Hereford Photography Festival, 2004. To view the essay by Anne McNeill from the Moor and Dale catalogue please click here. |
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Gamekeeper, 2002 | |
| Red Grouse, 2002 |
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Flanker, 2002 | |
| Birdman, 2002 |
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Lambing, 2003 | |
| Dipping sheep, 2002 |
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Hand clipping sheep, 2003 | |
| Farmer's wife, 2002 |
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