Right to Roam Exhibition

I’m delighted to share that Moors of Home is part of the Right to Roam exhibition in the North York Moors.

The exhibition runs from 20 June to 26 July 2026 at the Inspired by Gallery, Danby Lodge National Park Centre, Lodge Ln, Danby, Whitby YO21 2NB.

Right to Roam
Moors of Home

Right to Roam Exhibition

Who gets to roam the countryside? Who gets to care for it?

“Nearly a century ago, workers from the industrial towns and cities of northern England began organising, not for better wages or shorter hours, but for something many now take for granted: the opportunity to walk freely in the countryside. Their campaign culminated in the 1932 Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, a landmark moment that helped shape the future of public access and contributed to the creation of Britain’s National Parks……

Right to Roam - Moors of Home
Right to Roam exhibition – Moors of Home

……This exhibition reflects on the history of the right to roam movement and its impact on the creation of England’s National Parks and public rights of way. Bringing together artists passionate about access to our shared landscape and artefacts from the Working-Class Movement Library, this display delves into what access to the countryside means to artists……

Right to Roam exhibition
Moors of Home – detail

Right to Roam invites visitors to consider the legacy of those early campaigners and to reflect on their own connection to the landscape. It is an exhibition about access, but also about care, belonging, memory and ways people find meaning in the natural world.” – Inspired by Gallery.

Water Exhibition

I’m pleased to announce that Moors of Home has been selected for the Water exhibition at Village Arts in Skelmanthorpe.

Moors of Home. Part of the Water Exhibition
Moors of Home. Part of the Water Exhibition

The exhibition, featuring seventy plus works from forty artists, will be in show at Village Art, 24 Commercial Road, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, HD8 9DA from the 3rd February – 1st March 2025.

Update February 2025:

Thank you to Mike Roberts of Village Arts for curating such a brilliant exhibition.

Gallery images
Gallery images
Gallery images
Gallery images
Gallery images
Gallery images

Summer Art Exhibition

I’m pleased to announce that ‘Moors of Home‘ has been selected by the Open Gallery for their Summer Art Exhibition.

This Group Exhibition will take place 25th June – 15th July 2022, at Open Gallery, 18 Rawson Street, Halifax HX1 1NH.

Summer Art Exhibition
Summer Art Exhibition
Summer Art Exhibition Moors of Home| Hand Embroidered Textile Art |21 x 27 cm
Moors of Home| Hand Embroidered Textile Art |21 x 27 cm

The central panel features an extract from the poem ‘Pennine Ramble’ written by Ebron. It was first published in “A Lancashire Miscellany”, a newspaper column featured in weekend editions of the Oldham Chronicle between 1956 and 1959.

The words around the outer border depict a memory from my own childhood of visiting my Grandparents in Stacksteads, Lancashire.

On sunny days they would pack a picnic and say ‘Let’s go up clough’. For me this meant a short walk up the footpath, past the farm with a Border Collie dog and ducks, over the stile and through the broken dry-stone walls, followed by a steep climb up to the clough and the brook where the water flowed fresh from the moors. I’ve spent many summers since sitting on the same rock, under the tree and paddling my feed in the cool water.

Size 21 x 27 cm. Hand embroidered and hand stitched with vintage Sylko thread on cotton cloth Eco printed with leaves and petals from my lockdown garden in Summer 2020. Designed during Spring 2021 UK lockdown.

Moors of Home is part of a body of work about my Lancashire roots.