Saltaire is a special place for me, having lived a short walk away in Shipley for most of my life it’s somewhere I have spent a lot of time visiting. Salts mill itself sits in the Aire Valley on the Leeds Liverpool Canal and was one of the first Victorian model villages, created by Titus Salt (and the reason behind the name).

The village became a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2001, as Salt had created a self contained place as wanted his workers to live in better conditions than in the city, so along with house he built a school, library, concert hall, almshouses, park and boat house amongst other things.

The mill ceased production in 1986 and became a gallery housing a collection of David Hockney’s work, somewhere I have grown up visiting and admiring the artworks.

As I create a Saltaire screen print most years I always look for a different view, for this one I went to the otherwise of the Aire and over to Baildon Green and I wanted to show the vastness of the mill complex and how it sits in the landscape.