‘Across The North Sea’ is a small but meticulously formed exhibition of
photographs selected from two distinctive artists whose work shares a set of common
aesthetic values and whose lives reach from Yorkshire and the Pennines across the
North Sea to Germany and Scandinavia.

German born Fay Godwin was educated internationally before settling in London and
subsequently Hastings where she died in 2005. Much of her landscape work has drawn
upon an interest in the ecological and rural environments of Cumbria and Yorkshire. The series exhibited as part of ‘Across the North Sea’ is that of Remains of Elmet: A
Pennine Sequence which was produced in collaboration with poet Ted Hughes in 1979.

Anna Lilleengen is a fine art photographer currently working out of Yorkshire and
Scandinavia. Her work, which draws heavily upon her Swedish upbringing near the
forests of Värmland, presents a collection of unique landscapes and forest studies each painstakingly made using an antique large format camera.

‘Across The North Sea’ will bring together these Yorkshire landscapes from the
late Fay Godwin and the Scandinavian-produced abstract studies of Yorkshire based
Anna Lilleengen, to offer a unique and intriguing study of two rich and evocative
landscapes and two very distinctive photographers.