Somerset State of Mind

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How does a landscape become part of our creative identity and our understanding of where we belong?

Somerset’s myths, legends and particular energy have long inspired fashion designer Alice Temperley, becoming part of the visual language and personal story behind her work. For Guy Hayward of the British Pilgrimage Trust, the county is also a place of pilgrimage, with Glastonbury at the heart of one of Britain’s most resonant sacred landscapes. Alongside psychiatrist and author Marchelle Farrell, whose memoir Uprooting explores gardens, migration, memory and home, they consider how landscape shapes creativity, identity and belonging, and how the places we inhabit become part of who we are.