OWPG: Media News Bulletin Summer 2018 | Page 24

Susie White Country Writing S usie White uses her writing and photography to celebrate the life and landscape of the North Pennines where she lives. A naturalist and gardener, she contributes a monthly Country Diary to the Guardian. Other recent articles have been in BBC Countryfile magazine about the last hay rake makers in Britain, and a celebration of the North Pennines AONB for Countryside Voice, the magazine of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. She photographs the wild and the cultivated, upland hay meadows and garden planting in the meadow style, seeking to capture the experience of place both visually and with words.