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A film of walking in the North Yorkshire dales, right up in the North of England, in the snow. The films are silent, and I’ve put them alongside a poem by Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998), a prolific English poet who was born in Yorkshire - much of his work says something about the rawness of nature, life and death to me.

‘Icecrust and Snowflake’ is about the transition between seasons, and the gathering momentum of spring. It’s a good contrast next to the images of a weekend when winter seemed to return all of a sudden: the daffodils had come up in my window box in London just the week before, and then suddenly, up North, I was walking in snow.

On the Friday night, in a village called Hawes, I had the best fish and chips I’ve had for ages.