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What the eye sees

Will Garfit is adept at creating something rather special from a blank canvas. Those not possessed of such a talent can only marvel at those who see beauty in something unprepossessing and then have the skill and determination to realise that vision.

Vision

It was that vision that prompted the young Will Garfit to act on a hunch and buy a 69-acre abandoned gravel pit while he was still an art student.

That was in 1970 and those who have been lucky enough to enjoy the shoot and land at Hauxton Pits in Cambridgeshire over the past 50 years owe Will’s understanding bank

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