They were designed to be part of the Fields of Vision project of artworks lining the route of the Tour De France in Yorkshire, but the two works by international artist Imran Qureshi at Baitings Reservoir near Ripponden are here to stay for the summer.

Entitled Here and There and Bridging, they were commissioned as part of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, the first-ever arts festival to precede Le Tour.

Qureshi’s work is featured at just one of the project’s 12 sites along the route – created to be seen from the air as television cameras in helicopters followed the race route.

Here and There is a reflection of the reservoir water, with two splashes moving in opposite directions and captured in red and blue, with white highlights, in recognition of the French flag. Bridging uses a range of media to translate the Tour de France into Arabic calligraphic text.

The two pieces were created at field-scale on Yorkshire Water land by members of the Calderdale Young Farmers. Qureshi, who flew in from Pakistan shortly before Le Tour, had to design them on a computer and leave the execution to others.

Commenting after seeing the works, he said: “Normally I do the painting myself. The work I have done in the past has been on the walls or the roof of a building, but this is in the landscape itself; it’s been very different.”

Securing Qureshi’s work for the festival was considered to be a major coup for Calderdale. His work is seen all over the world and in 2013 he was commissioned to produce a piece for the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The works at Baitings can be seen until October and can be viewed from the dam walkway.

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