“...the paintings are wondrous. Paths to the sea, plentiful table tops, windy washing lines. A Swede’s take on life in a Northern English town, steeped in history, lights and darks. Brita’s paintings celebrate the every day in an extraordinary way.” http://www.britagranstrom.com/

“... although the deep mining has gone, the (proggy) mats are still arounds, kept alive by folk like Proggy Queen Gladys Aynsley. So I commissioned Gladys to make me a mat, to celebrate my Dartktown Miners’ Social Club. And your too can enjoy this masterpiece at Woodhorn Museum, for the duration of my exhibition this summer.”

"High wistful, lonesome tones that bring folks together, sweep across the hills and forest of Northumberland to create a swirl of magical notes, medleys and rants that slowly drift up onto the vast, open, starry sky, above the castle turrets and into the ether...” https://www.kathryntickell.com/home

“Simply doff your cap to the women who hugely helped to hold it all together whilst their husbands, brothers and sons were at the picket line. It was the women who kept the meals coming, the food parcels distributed, all with a new found confidence and a sense of tomorrow, and how it might just get better’. (With special thanks to Gwen Newton’s book ‘We Are Women, We Are Strong.’)

“the wonderful part of this project has been making new pals, marras, comrades (don’t forget, unity is strength)..Vicky Pepys contacted me to give me snippets of info, which cuttings unquiet ghosts from the Hexham Courant.”