Article: My Yorkshire: Ashley Jackson

Ashley Jackson was born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1940. His paintings of brooding moorlands have been exhibited worldwide and have been described as being synonymous with Yorkshire. Since opening his first gallery back in 1963, he has become one of the country's most successful landscape watercolourists and in 1967 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

What's your first memory of being outdoors?

For my first birthday, in Bangalore, India, my mother hired a bear charmer with

his dancing bear to entertain me

and my cousins.

What's your favourite part of the county and why?

Swaledale is one of my favourite parts of the county, because it starts off from Richmond and features ...

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