You can see a selection of Ana's work in the Gallery at The Watermill, Little Salkeld, where Ana lives, and where she also runs the mill business. If you are interested in traditional flour milling using organic grain, or if you just want to enjoy some of the best organic, vegetarian baking and cooking in this part of England, then click on to the Mill's website at www.organicmill.co.uk.

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ANA BALFOUR, WEAVER & KNITTER.

Ana trained at St Martins School of Art and set up her own business in London before moving to Cumbria. She runs her own small flock of sheep and sends their wool for spinning in a Welsh mill. When she gets it back she dyes it using natural plant dyes. When the wool is dyed it gets knitted into jerseys, cushions, hats and gloves like the ones shown in this website. She has a traditional hand loom for weaving cushions and scarves.

Ana winding wool in her workroom - Illustration by Sophie Martin from

"A day in the Life of The Watermill". *

* Watermill publications - £7.50 inc postage.

In the frame at Collioure.

Nick Jones ...

has lived and worked in Cumbria since the mid 1970s.

He and Ana restored Little Salkeld Watermill and still live and run the mill, now famous for its organic and biodynamic flour and its tearoom.

He established Eden Arts in 1990, and helped run Culture Cumbria from 2003 - 2010. More here...

Collioure

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Exhibition On Now :

Along the Settle & Carlisle

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Click here to see work from Collioure

Click here to see sketches of Dutch mills

Recent work :

Dutch Mills.

Pumping Mills at Kinderdyke, near Rotterdam

Sketches when visiting Holland on tour with the SPAB Mills Section.

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Exhibition On Now :

Along the Settle & Carlisle

Fully Illustrated catalogue and prices

Out to Grass : Retired Steam Loco at Appleby Station

As part of this project I have been working with poet Alan Daltrey. We've produced a beautiful Anthology of poems with images to accompany them :

Grand Fettle - Carlisle

Midweek St Mary's, and Yellow Signal Box - Armathwaite

Red Lamp - Langwathby

Out to Grass - Appleby

Garsdale Station

Dent Station - 1,150 feet

Out of Sight - Settle

Work inspired by the stations, trains and landscape of one of Britain's most scenic railways. It was considered by the late Eric Treacy, former Bishop of Wakefield, and a wonderful railway photographer, to be one of the three great man-made wonders of the world... along with York Minster, and Hadrian's Wall.

Exhibition of Nick's work at Little Salkeld Watermill Tearoom.

18th July to 17th September 2010.

Open daily 10.30am to 5pm.

Grand Fettle by Alan Daltrey

I love the smell of steam,
The hiss of heat and oil;
Of coal and smoke I dream,
And engines on the boil.

I love the stoker's face,
Its sweat and reddy grin,
He lets me shovel coal,
I so wish I was him.

I love it when we start,
The pressure builds and builds; The first explosive shunt,
The passing trees and fields.

The black smoke as we climb, The tunnel's darkened roar,
The clatter of the viaducts
Along the rails we soar.

Above the Eden Gorge,
The rattle and the rhythm,
It's like a blacksmith's forge,
By heat and hammer driven.

The highest point is Dent,
A climb of a thousand feet. Three million pounds were spent,
Enough to buy Downing Street.

Six thousand worked on the line,
Seventy three miles of track, Fourteen tunnels were mined, Twenty two viaducts from scratch.

Ribblehead is magical,
Twenty four arches in all,
A wild moorland cathedral
Over a hundred feet tall.

I wish it would never end,
This journey into Settle,
The rails still curve and bend And all in such grand fettle.