25 Feb A Stay in Yorkshire…with David Hockney, Peeling Paint and Sunset on the Moors

Last February I went to stay with Rachel @welliesandlove at her home in Yorkshire where her famed round window lives… She’s virtually my cousin as my grandfather and her grandmother were each other’s constant companions when we were younger.

I’d wanted to get back for another visit during last year but the weeks just rolled into each other and it has taken me a whole year to get back…but I was aso glad I went as, apart from going to Betty’s in Ilkley which is always a must, Rachel also took me to Salt’s Mill for the first time and I was blown away by the extensive collection of David Hockney‘s work there, (due to it being so near Bradford where he grew up). It was also a great excuse to meet up with Jules @thisisjules and Oscar as I hadn’t seen her since my workshop in Sheffield a couple of years ago.

Rachel also took me to Haworth, indulged my texture collecting, my telephone box spotting and my general pleas to pull over onto verges where good photo opportunities were calling .

I was only there a couple of days but it felt like a whole week and fuelled by an incredible sunrise on the train journey back home I am already desperate to get back up there…

A Betty’s treat in Ilkely… Saltaire… Salts Mill… Me and @thisisjules looking through tiny textured holes… Oscar wanted to look through a hole in the wall too… They had displays of modern pottery which was great to see as I have lots of these Portmeirion designs…And Rachel has lots of these Hornsea designs… ( I was born in Coventry… ) And so to the Hockney’s…

I made two Salts Mill inspired homages to Hockney…( above and below )

On to an out of season Haworth…home of the Bronte sisters

An alarm and early rise to catch the train home…

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