Calderdale’s sweet success and industrial legacy are being explored in a new exhibition by Hebden Bridge artist Kate Lycett. Sally Clifford went to meet her. Main pictures by Tony Johnson.
The colour and precise detail is apparent even on a postcard sketch. Framed and hung in Kate Lycett’s home studio, the precious drawing of her childhood home in Eye, Suffolk, on the front, and bearing the neatly penned words ‘You have a paintbox now, you must learn how to use it’ on the back are a fond reminder of her late grandfather, Kenneth Lycett.
Dipping into archives, Kate dusted off papers and plans to painstakingly research and tell the story through detailed artwork of the area’s grand houses, among them Castle Carr whose dominating presence once loomed above Luddenden Dean. “It was all about disappearing Yorkshire mansions. Mill owning families built these fantastically grand houses and they have gone within 100 years,” says Kate.
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