LIZZIE FAREY

Lizzie Farey was a small child when she first experienced the benign influence of nature. On family holidays she and her four siblings were bundled into the car and driven several hours from their home near Birmingham to the wilds of south-west Scotland. Here, Lizzie would strike out on solitary adventures, escaping her ‘noisy family’ to explore the local moorlands and bogs in search of still, secret spaces. ‘I would find these little places that made me happy,’ she remembers. ‘Little streams with ferns sticking out of the rocks where I would