Kitty North is one of our best known painters and the focus of the next in our ‘favourite artists’ series. Chris Bond visited her at her home in North Yorkshire.

You’re unlikely to stumble across Kitty North’s gallery by accident, tucked away as it is in the tiny village of Arncliffe, in Littondale. But it’s worth the effort. The journey alone takes you across some of the best countryside you’ll find anywhere in England, let alone Yorkshire.

Arncliffe, too, is picture-postcard pretty. Its stone cottages are surrounded by hillsides etched with limestone scars and have the added bonus of being a short walk from The Falcon - the kind of proper pub that is sadly all too rare these days (and where I enjoyed the best pie and peas I’...