TWO artists have taken their work capturing the sights and sounds of moorland in the Yorkshire Dales to the heart of the city.

Original paintings by established Askrigg artists Judith Bromley and Robert Nicholls feature in an exhibition entitled Climb up the Moor which is now running at The Light at Friends House, opposite Euston Station, in London.

Backed by a soundtrack of the calls of curlew and lapwing, the artwork aims to capture and celebrate the beauty of the Dales moorland.

The artists also want their work to raise awareness of the role moorland can play in the fight against climate change, with peat bogs more efficient at capturing and holding carbon than the earth’s rainforests.

Mrs Bromley said: "The more time I spent up on the moorland with the calls of curlew and lapwing, the more I rediscovered my true relationship with the changing of the seasons, the turning of the earth, and the more passionate I became about caring for our precious jewel of a planet."

A spokesman for the organisers said: "We are reversing the trend of taking London shows to the North, and are bringing the wide expanses of the moors into this new city centre venue.”

The free exhibition will run until August 29