Natural selection - Bitter Back Pottery
Joan Hardie is a Cockermouth-based potter whose work captures the essence of the leaves, lichen and bark she finds out walking. May Ingham meets her. "The defining moment of Joan Hardie’s artistic life came when she and her husband Jack, on a long weekend in Barcelona, saw a work by Claudi Cassanovas at an exhibition of contemporary ceramics. It was suspended by huge chains, a vertical disc with “no glaze but all texture” – in part like craters on the moon and in part like lava into which a stone had been dropped..."
Culture - Kendal sketchbook, drawing on history
Architect Michael Bottomley has spent decades capturing Kendal's distinctive buildings and places in drawings and paintings. Now the results have been brought together ina beautiful book
Taffy Thomas, the Lakes' finest storyteller
Sue Allan goes to Grasmere to meet the king of Cumbria’s fine storytelling tradition, Taffy Thomas
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