ANGELA HARDING - STILL WATERS & WILD WAVES

Last year I was lucky enough to follow Angela around the country taking pictures of her and the landscape in the places she talks about in her new book, Still Waters & Wild Waves. I have been taking Angela’s pictures for the past 4 years and feel incredibly lucky that she asks me to accompany her on these trips. I cherish our conversations and love hearing all about her life, her past, the whippets, her art. I will never tire of seeing Angela stop at a bench, pull out her sketchbook and a pen and create artwork I could only dream of.

I always feel so inspired after I have being in her company and value the wisdom that she passes on to me. This latest book is full of stories of Angela travelling around the country by bike, boat and foot. When I read the extracts, it feels like we’re having one of our many conversations sat on the edge of a cliff, me taking her picture as she is sketching the landscape ahead.

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STUDIO NEIGHBOUR

My studio neighbour and ceramicist Jo Woffinden kindly let me try out my new lens whilst she was pulling handles for a project she is working on

 
 
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TEXTILE CONSERVATION FOR ENGLISH HERITAGE MAGAZINE

A great commission from English Heritage magazine to photograph the conservation team and volunteers at Brodsworth Hall carrying out the examining, cleaning and repacking work on the textiles and clothing they have in the archives.
The clothing the team are looking at is from the Grant-Dalton’s who occupied Brodsworth Hall from the 1930s. English Heritage acquired the house in the 80s and all its belongings so the long and important task of conservation and archiving has been going on ever since.

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TEASELS

Im not usually one for photographing still life but I found this little teasel in the woods so decided to take it back to my studio and find it’s most photogenic side. The dried head was once used in the textile industry to raise the nap on woollen cloth ‘to tease’, which seems quite fitting as my studio is in a former textile mill.

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