Meet the Harewood volunteer creating mushrooms out of fallen trees.

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Volunteering on the Harewood estate has inspired woodturner Linda Walsh to connect with nature through her creations, as Sally Clifford found out when she went to meet her. Pictures by James Hardisty.

Grey skies on a rainy spring day cannot distort or drain the colour from the captivating landscape surrounding Linda Walsh’s “workplace”. For the beauty of the Himalayan Garden, within the 4,000-acre Harewood estate, is abundant – whatever the weather or season. The sunken glade occurred as a result of the damming of the beck to create the lake by landscape gardener, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, and it is around the pathways of Linda’s favourite place we stroll.

“There is a rhythm to it – it’s a bit like Tai Chi,” says Linda, referring to the gentle swaying involved in the wood turning process. “The exciting bit is when you are cutting into the wood and the shape starts to reveal itself. I may have an idea of what it will be like, but as I am working with the wood it changes because I think the wood feels as though it wants to go like that.

 

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