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Esther Waite
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Artist/maker and facilitator based in Calderdale.
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A chance encounter with some other cattle earlier in the year prompted me to embark on a new programme of creative work, with curiosity at its heart.

So far this has involved blackberries, inner demons, peat and becoming a cat. So that should make for an interesting 2026.

#curiosity #creativity
Photograph of a brown, horned bullock standing in a grassy, muddy field next to a dry stone wall that recedes down a steep hill from right to left. He is staring directly into the camera. A cluster of buildings in the valley below is surrounded by bare trees that extend upwards and become fellside woodland.
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Glad for gloves this morning

#Calderdale #running
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A foggy start with spidery jewels.

#Calderdale #trailrunning #Yorkshiretrails
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Golden light on Midgley moor with a sea of cloud below.

#Calderdale #trailrunning #Yorkshiretrails
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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My collage artwork has taken a back seat in recent weeks while I've been getting organised around a new creative project. More on that to follow, but for now here's Number 78 enjoying a recent sunny spell down by Cragg Brook.

#art #collage #collageart
Photograph of a small, mixed media, abstract collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The artwork is standing on a mini easel on a rock. The stream and opposite bank are visible behind, out of focus.
September 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This gave me the smiles I needed this morning. Thank you, boater/s of #hebdenbridge 😁😁
Photograph of a marrow standing stalk upright in a tyre that is lying flat on top of a narrow boat. The boat is mid blue with a warm yellow roof. Terraced houses rise directly from the far canal embankment.
August 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A stroll out, frequently interrupted by the curse of the blackberry sea.
Photograph with a bramble patch in the near foreground, taken from a footpath near Hand Carr Farm, with woodland and Midgley Moor looking very lovely under sunny skies in the distance on the other side of the Calder valley. Lyrics to a ditty, laid out in white against a dark purple background: Blackberry sea Oh blackberry sea Wave upon wave of you Calling to me All sundrenched and plump A soft delicacy I want to dive into The blackberry sea Blackberry sea Oh blackberry sea You don't understand What you're doing to me I've plundered your depths Still you won't let me be My willpower's drowned By the blackberry sea Blackberry sea Oh blackberry sea Until you're all gone I shan't ever be free My fingers are stained And I won't want my tea But I still can't resist That sweet blackberry sea
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Ever get the feeling you're being watched??

A make-it-up-as-you-go trail run on an overcast Mytholmroyd morning, which turned out to feature Broadhead Clough, Bell House Moor (complete with bovine onlookers), Swan Bank and St John the Baptist in the Wilderness.

#Calderdale #trailrunning
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Highlights from this morning's trail run - a curious artefact, a small visitor taking a break from city life and a pause to drink in the 360 degree views from Crow Hill before heading home.

#Calderdale
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Number 73, avidly people watching from its new vantage point along the Hebden Bridge Open Studios Window Trail.

Big thanks to Weighsted for making my small canvases so welcome.

#art #collage #collageart #calderdale #hbopenstudios25 #hebdenbridge #hebdenbridgeopenstudios
Photograph of a small, mixed media, abstract collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The artwork is standing on a mini easel in a shop window.
June 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#solstice sunrise, Midgley Moor
June 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Number 76, taking a moment to unwind in the glorious Calderdale countryside and reflect on the meaning of life on canvas... before heading to Hebden Bridge Town Hall for the Open Studios exhibition (until 6th July).

#art #collage #collageart #hbopenstudios25 #artexhibition #hebdenbridgeopenstudios
June 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Number 77, seeking a shady spot.

#art #collage #collageart #calderdale
Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of blues, yellows, greens and burn oranges. The artwork is set against a backdrop of dry, brown leaves and fresh green new foliage.
June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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May.

Hasn't quite converted me from autumn to #spring, but it's been a blooming good effort.
May 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Treated myself to a Friday afternoon needle tip bottle applicator extravaganza.

#art #BrandNewSentence
Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of browns and blues. Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of greens and dark greys. Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of greens, blues and greys.
May 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Can't get round a run without finding something fabulous to stop and smoosh my face into.

#spring #wisteria
Close up photograph of a cluster of wisteria flowers, cascading in pea-like blooms that are lilac, pink and yellow.
May 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Number 75, out on the tops enjoying the morning sunshine.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale
Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The collage is displayed on a mini easel on top of a dark dry stone wall. Behind, slightly out of focus, is a field leading to another wall will blue sky and fluffy white clouds above. Photograph of the view from Broadhead Clough, just below Erringden Moor, towards Mytholmroyd, Calderdale. The narrow track in the foreground is bordered by grass, heather and bilberry bushes as well as some small trees just coming into leaf. To the left is a dark dry stone wall. In the distance the ground rises again beyond the valley. The sky is blue with white and grey fluffy clouds.
April 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Number 74, out and about on a frosty when you leave the house but way too hot in all your layers after about five minutes kind of morning.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale
Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The collage is lying flat amongst frosty grass and fallen leaves.
April 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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A few of last month's outdoorsy moments and creative outputs, featuring glimmers of spring and an odd place to no longer catch a bus.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale
April 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Number 70, living life on the hedge.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale
Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of blues, brown, greens and yellows. The collage is lying flat on top of a coniferous hedge that has golden-green foliage.
March 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Number 69, making itself at home amongst the rusted metal, stone, moss and lichens.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale
Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of yellows, golds, browns and greens. The collage is lying flat amongst moss and lichens on a stone surface, partially covering a rusted metal bar that runs nearly vertically across the stone on the right hand side.
March 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A gorgeous cluster of ridiculously vivid undergrowth-dwellers. I'm no expert but these have to be Scarlet Elfcups, don't they??

#fungi #Calderdale
February 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Introducing #68 (Grassland Fungi), currently part of the Ancient Underlands exhibition at Hebden Bridge Town Hall.

#art #Calderdale #artexhibition #collage #collageart
February 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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A grey, misty Friday morning run above the clouds, then home for a splash of colour working on my new collage materials.

#art #collage #collageart
January 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Making materials for my next collage project.

#art #collage #collageart
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM