Graeme Black s Trunk Show opens at Messums Harrogate on May 7
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In a year which has seen many of us lunge towards the great outdoors, Graeme Black’s career conversion seems remarkably prescient. It’s five years now since the fiftysomething Scot, having built an enviable career in fashion, holding top jobs at Galliano, Armani and Salvatore Ferragamo, quit it all in order to paint – to stalk the forest near his home in the Yorkshire Dales, and to make pictures, or “portraits”, of the stunning variety of trees around him. The fact that he’s about to have his first ever exhibition, at the Messums Gallery in Harrogate, is testament to their quality, but he keeps a rigorously Scots no-nonsense modesty about it.
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For some, rural life isn t enough – meet the people moving to the real wilderness
Miles from anywhere and at one with nature, we ve mapped the quietest places in England where you can get away from it all
Graeme Black in his remote home in North Yorkshire
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Long before the onset of the pandemic, the desire to find an escape route from the near constant interruptions of modern life was well established. But now that working patterns have changed, it’s opened up new opportunities – and territories.
Estate agency Savills found the quietest areas of English countryside, which are completely cut off from it all. It mapped the places that lie at least three miles from major roads, railway lines and airports, and which recorded poor broadband connectivity (the modern-day signage for isolation).