The Field

Art in the field

WHAT better place could there be to live than in the world of Jonathan Walker’s English countryside? Hares leap about the place dressed as Regency toffs in Tattersall check britches and cut-away coats. A fox quaffs from his hip flask as he rides by on his nice middleweight hunter. A badger still in his nightshirt settles down on a cast-iron loo.

Walker says that as a boy growing up in Leek in the Peak District, he inhabited this world.

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