PHOTOGRAPHER Lucy Saggers depicts Yorkshire through a lens in a new exhibition at Scampston Walled Garden

Lucy’s highly acclaimed and award-winning photographs are on display in the Garden Café until June 18.

Landscapes & Lives explores the richness of lives and landscapes around Lucy's home village of Ampleforth.

Using prime lenses and natural light, Lucy produces evocative signed, limited edition, black and white archive prints, through which she would like to reveal the beauty of every day rural life.

In 2015, Lucy achieved the second round of the prestigious National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, as well as being named Craft Photographer of the Year. Lucy has also twice been a finalist (2015 and 2016), and is currently short-listed, in the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year.

Lucy’s work has been critically well received. The Yorkshire Art Journal, February 2016, commented: “They strike us with their luminous quality: rural homages in black and white, telling tales and capturing sincere moments otherwise passed by. Lucy Saggers’ depictions are rich in narrative, communicating the essence of a Yorkshire community. She is acutely drawn to light, to shade and the qualities of the British landscape. Seeking to capture the beauty in the everyday, Lucy sees the world through a lens.”

Lucy said: “I am delighted to be given the opportunity to exhibit my work in the Garden Café at Scampston. Scampston offers the perfect backdrop for my photographs, being a rural estate steeped in history, community and with a strong sense of rootedness to place – an essence I try to capture in my photographs. I hope that visitors to the gardens will feel some resonance with the images on display.”

Isobel Pritchard, Marketing & Visitor Services Manager added: “Lucy’s work is incredibly powerful and emotive, capturing relationships with an unspoken intimacy, as well as the striking allure of rural landscapes. We are delighted that we will be able to admire her work in the Garden Café for two months, and do hope that visitors will appreciate her delicate portrayal of rural Yorkshire stories.”

More information about Lucy Saggers and her work can be found on her website: www.lucysaggers.com.

The Walled Garden and Parkland at Scampston will be open until October 29. Opening hours for the gardens and the Garden Café are Tuesday – Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays, 10am – 5pm. The Hall will open for guided afternoon tours from the May 21 to August 6. There is no entrance fee charged for those wishing to visit the Garden Café and the exhibition alone.