Picture Post: Artists make their mark on the Wolds landscape

Once complete there will be 10 projects in all and photographed here is one of the first four to be completed. Wave and Times, the brainchild of Chris Drury, can be seen at Thixendale.

Sited at the point where two glacial valleys meet, the work has been inspired by ice and water which once flowed through this ancient landscape.

The site was seeded with a conservation grass mix which left to settle, formed the gentle vibrant grassy mounds.

In the smaller of the two valleys, a small disused dew pond, a common feature of the Wolds Valley used to provide water for sheep and cattle, has been restored and incorporated into the design.

Chris said: “The idea of the piece was to recreate the flow lines which would have been made by rivers and glaciers which formed the valley. But I wanted to do it in a subtle way. In time I felt the banks would erode down and it would be barely visible.”

Elsewhere on the route visitors can see 10 oak benches, designed by the artist Angus Ross and inscribed with the verse of local poet John Wedgewood Clarke, while at Knapton Brow, the artist Jony Easterby took his inspiration from the small chalk figures found within historic burial grounds for his installation of ‘guardians’ sculpted from wood.

Wander – Art on the Yorkshire Wolds Way was launched by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire in an effort to increase awareness of the Wolds Way and the surrounding countryside in the hope it will help to boost tourism in an often overlooked corner of the county.

Varying in both scale and style, the unusual collection of works will be dotted along the 79-mile trail, beginning on the banks of the River Humber and finishing on Filey Brigg headland. Four of these works have now been completed and project development work is continuing to deliver the remaining six sites.

Technical details: Nikon D3s, 12-24mm lens, 200th@f14 250ISO.

Picture: Tony Johnson

Words: Claire Schofield