Ed, 27, a painter, illustrator, designer and printmaker, specialises in the lost and the mysterious: great cathedrals, odd follies and vanished buildings.


What's your first memory of being outdoors?
What's stayed with me is the memory of mum and I playing with paints in the garden, so I think that from a very early age I associated creativity with comfort, homeliness and security. This makes it easier when I'm working, which can be a solitary and melancholic process


What's your favourite part of the county and why?I'm very fond of the east coast, of Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay and the Esk Valley. I've had, and still have, a lot of very happy family holidays in Robin Hood's Bay.


What's your perfect day or weekend?I'd be in Whitby, camping with friends or family. It has to be a sunny day that starts early with a nice cup of tea on the sea front. We'll visit the arcades and we'd have to visit the Pannett Park Museum. It has avoided any updating and remains resolutely Victorian. Then cocktails at the Half Moon and Sixpence, followed by a bag of chips and a walk on the beach.


What's your favourite walk or view?Marske Hall, one of the greatest houses in the Dales, is pretty well known. But until the 1840s there was another older house in Marske called Clints Hall. My favourite walk is up through the old parkland that belonged to Clints Hall.


Who's your favourite Yorkshire artist?David Hockney's work really excites me. He's such a versatile and joyful artist.

He's able to work from small-scale etchings to great big stage sets. I admire the fact that he's so in touch with his roots and is working back in Yorkshire again.


Which Yorkshire stage or screen star would you like to take for lunch?Mollie Sugden would be brilliant fun.


If you had to name your hidden Yorkshire gem, what would it be?
It's Gillingwood Hall, an inaccessible private house. It's on the hill just above Gilling West village and belonged to the Wharton family. The main character in its story is Margaret Wharton, notorious in the 1750s as Peg Pennyworth, the meanest woman in Yorkshire.

Her brother refused to bequeath her the estate on his death. After the will was read, she threw a huge party and, still drunk the following day, torched the whole place. There's a farmhouse where the hall once stood, but the original
front door stands in the middle of the lawn, still bearing the scorched and blackened marks of fire.

What do you think gives Yorkshire its unique identity?
I think it's the people and their relationship with the landscape. Having space gives us so much freedom. Being able to walk on the moors and not see anyone for miles around does something pretty profound to you emotionally.


What about Yorkshire's cultural life?I'm a big supporter of the Swaledale Festival. The Richmond A1 Open Exhibition is also very bold and innovative and being hailed as a rival to the Royal Academy summer exhibition.


Do you have a favourite restaurant or pub?I'm very fond of Birch Hall Inn at Beck Hole, near Whitby. It's a tiny 19th century pub next to a bridge. One side is a sweet shop where you can still buy a quarter of sweets in a brown paper bag. The other is this tiny bar which sells excellent ale and big proper beer garden pub sandwiches.


Your favourite food shop?Ken Warne's in Richmond, an open-all hours convenience store crossed with Fortnum & Mason's food hall.


How do you think Yorkshire has changed in the time you've known it?
Socially, I think it's changed a huge amount. When my family came up in the early '80s, we found it quite difficult to integrate, and it was hard for me at school because of the way I spoke.

Now Yorkshire is more accepting of new people, who come for the beauty and because it has so much to give in terms
of life quality.


Are those changes for the better?
For areas to develop, there needs to be an exchange of people bringing
new ideas. This has changed Richmond for the better. The problem I have is with people buying second homes in small villages, who come for a few weeks a year and do nothing to support the local community.


Who is the Yorkshire man or woman you most admire?
Titus Salt has left such a rich legacy. He apparently had no fortune left when he died because he'd given £500,000 to charity. He believed in improving the life of the individual at a time when Bradford must have been pretty horrendous.


How has Yorkshire influenced your work?
As a place and a landscape, it harbours many secrets. Yorkshire has many voices; it speaks of things past but is also a place of the present and future.


Name your favourite Yorkshire book.
Poetry by Ted Hughes. When I was 17, school sent 10 of us on an Arvon creative writing course at Lumb Bank, Hughes's former home. I fell in love with his
writing that weekend. My favourite poem is The Horses.

Under the Rose, Ed Kluz's new exhibition runs from August 23 to September 21 at Hornseys Gallery, 3 Kirkgate, Ripon.