This month Behind the Scenery takes a trip to the farm.
But it’s not just any old farm – it’s photographer Amy Bateman’s 900 acre farm Croft Foot at Docker just outside Kendal, a mixed farm which she runs with her husband Colin. It forms the basis for a book she has written, alongside publisher Dave Felton, called Forty Farms, profiling agriculture and farming across Cumbria in 2022. Tom Speight has been to interview her to find out how her project came about.
In this edition he also talks to Harriet and Rob Fraser, two environmental artists who have been working at Bolton Moss Fell, a huge former industrial peat bog near Longtown which is in the process of being restored. They’ve brought an artistic eye to how the story of the bog can be told, ahead of it opening up to the public next year.
And Tom also visits ceramicist Paul Scott as his studio in Blencogo outside Wigton. Paul’s exhibition Cumbrian Blue(s) has recently opened at Blackwell, full of pieces of reworked industrially printed ceramics showing things are not always what they seem to be.
Behind the Scenery, the podcast from Cumbria Arts and Culture Network, find out more at www.cacn.co.uk
