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Our opening times are normally:
10am - 4.30pm
Tuesday - Saturday

Event: Talk with photographer Pete Davis, Wednesday May 18th at 7pm

Event: “Pebbles on a Child’s Palm” - A tribute in words and music to Jan Skácel, Friday May 20th 2022 7:30pm

Jon Roberts

Jon Roberts is showing a series of images from a documentary project entitled 'This Other Eden' - a project he undertook on the U.K. National Parks.

In May 2017, a draft version of the Future Landscapes Wales report was published. It caused a great deal of concern, as it placed a lot of emphasis on innovation and development, but little on the value of conserving the special qualities of protected landscapes. It made Jon realise that we cannot take these things for granted and motivated him to begin this documentary project.

Inspired by Carleton Watkins’ large format photographs that helped create public support for the first National Parks in the U.S., Jon set out to photograph the U.K. National Parks using a vintage panoramic film camera. In addition to the landscape images, he interviewed and photographed people who lived and worked in the National Parks.  

In his 1975 book The Experience of Landscape, Jay Appleton argued that we are attracted to landscapes that offer prospect or refuge, thereby serving our biological needs. This ‘prospect-refuge theory’ enabled Appleton to link those fundamental needs with the enjoyment we get from contemplating landscapes or their representation in works of art. With the panoramic camera, Jon hoped to find out whether these primordial vistas offering Prospect and Refuge could still be found. 


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Sychryd Cascade by Jon Roberts
Steve Rayner by Jon Roberts
Stella Phillips by Jon Roberts
Pen Y Fan from Mynydd Illtyd by Jon Roberts
Malham Cove, Yorkshire Dales by Jon Roberts
Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
Beacon Hill, South Downs by Jon Roberts
Dinorwic & Yr Wyddfa, Snowdonia
Carn Llidi, Pembrokeshire Coast
Mam Tor, The Peak District
Sutton Bank, North York Moors
Sycamore Gap, Northumberland
Latchmoor Brook, New Forest
Conic Hill, Loch Lomand and the Trossachs
Birker Fell, Lake District by Jon Roberts
The Barle Valley, Exmoor by Jon Roberts
Bowerman's Nose, Dartmoor by Jon Roberts
Meall a' Bhuachaille, Cairngorms by Jon Roberts
Hickling Broad, the Broads, by Jon Roberts
Allt yr Esgair, Brecon Beacons by Jon Roberts
Andrew "Flash" Phillips by Jon Roberts
View North from Fan Y Big by Jon Roberts
Alan Bowring by Jon Roberts

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