About

Simon Palmer has a profoundly spiritual relationship with his corner of England. How could he not when he has driven and walked over every inch of it within a ten mile radius of his home near Masham in North Yorkshire? I live just the other side of Masham, within six miles as the crow flies of his studio. I know these lanes, rutted tracks, and drystone walls that throw long shadows in the
evening light. I am not surprised when a picture contains a lane that abruptly disappears from view only to resurface at a right angle further down the hill. So I will write about him as a fellow occupant of …