THE SPIRIT OF MOORSCAPE™

Moorscape™ attempts to evoke the atmosphere, imagery, sounds, social and political history of Britain’s moorlands. Our moors were once largely forest, and have seen massive change over the last few hundred years. Their current shape comes from the enclosure of land by the monasteries in the Middle Ages, and from the 18th Century onwards, when landless labourers were forced to live on the margins of private estates where land was poor and food was short. 4,000 enclosure acts were passed that converted land out of common ownership into the exclusive private property of the landed gentry.

The parallels with society in today’s Britain are evident: the poor being marginalised and made to pay for the lifestyles of a small minority of extremely wealthy people. If there is hope in Moorscape™, it comes from the fact that life runs in a series of cycles, and that people of all races, creeds, abilities and income brackets experience nature, love, and the joy of living, as well as the hardships and sadnesses that seem to come with the territory. And that a better cycle will one day return.