before the sun shows itself / the stillness seems stiller / it is the space between breaths / the lost space between dreaming and waking … dawn at the Little Asby Hawthorn Read More
Winter dawn at the Little Asby Hawthorn
treefold:east on Little Asby Common
The treefold on Little Asby Common is the second of three treefolds being built in Cumbria as part of The Long View and the Charter Art Residency programme. Read More
When the time is right
the leaves don’t wonder whether to let go or not, they just fall when the time is right As it is with all our work outdoors, we revisited the site the day after installation to see how things were going. We had hung the leaves on the Little Asby Hawthorn in a glowing sunset and… Read More
From the Heart: Green – the third installation
We’re just back from quite an amazing afternoon. Today the Little Asby Hawthorn had a transformation. It has been leafless since late October: high on the limestone scar of Little Asby Common winter comes early. This afternoon, we added a fresh canopy of leaves to it, each leaf carrying a memory, a story or a… Read More
Meeting a rock star
I have wondered what it is that leaves the small bones of rodents amongst the limestone beneath the Little Asby Hawthorn. Yesterday, under the cloud-scudded blue of a warm summer sky, I was given a clue. As we strode … Read More
Drawn to the wild places: Walking with Natural England
We have been getting to know the Little Asby Hawthorn pretty well, visiting repeatedly, day and night, in winter, spring and summer. But what we really need to help us find out more about the land that the Hawthorn stands in, is an expert. In the space of a few hours with botanist Deborah Land… Read More
Introducing Little Asby Hawthorn
The Little Asby Hawthorn spends most of its time undisturbed by humans, a solitary figure beneath a wide open sky. Today it had some visitors … Read More
despite despite and only
despite the wind, despite the challenges … a poem on the thriving of this isolated hawthorn. Read More
Walking to the Hawthorn
Walking to the Little Asby Hawthorn from Great Asby Village last Friday … Read More
Darkness Fell: Painting a tree with light
in secret untrod land of night hawthorn riding stonebone waves of an ancient sea spirits are starlight At the beginning of the project we knew that we wanted to visit the trees during all of the seasons to experience their landscape in different types of weathers. Feel what they have to endure through the annual… Read More
THE LONG VIEW 