Dorcas Eatch: Profile Biography
Dorcas Eatch is an artist, landscape photographer, and active conservationist with a professional background spanning music education, technical systems analysis, and long-term environmental work.
Photography & Art: She is an accomplished creative whose work earned high professional validation when she was shortlisted for the prestigious Landscape Photographer of the Year award in 2011. Following a diverse career that included roles as a computer programmer, systems analyst, and workshop operator, she continues her work as a landscape photographer and artist.
Musical Background: Her deep musical roots are classically progressive and multi-instrumental. She began her musical path learning the accordion, later expanding her repertoire to the violin, flute, bassoon, and piano. She achieved academic distinction by winning heruniversity’s Woodwind Prize of the Year during her final year of studies.
Conservation Work: Reflecting over 50 years of active commitment to wildlife and nature conservation, she has extensively worked and volunteered for major environmental organisations. Her contributions span numerous UK reserves with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Essex Wildlife Trust, where she has been involved in key national tracking initiatives including bird and butterfly counts.
Health Profile: She is a cancer survivor, having successfully undergone major surgeries and medical treatments following a diagnosis of womb cancer.
Dorcas Eatch Profile. My heritage is Scottish/Welsh with both set of ancestors having been miners. Wilson Gunn clan.
I have never been an activist. I do not get involved in online community discussions.
Without any organisation names as I have evidence past employers have been contacted.
Childhood: lived in Aden (during war), Jamaica, Chethams Hospital School of Music, Kenya – played in lots of music festivals, o levels at 14, a levels at 16, wonderful school.
Came back to UK
B.Mus(Hons), LTCL, woodwind prize final year – flute, piano, bassoon
Dorcas Eatch CV
Music Teacher
Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst
Conservation for over 50 years, tied top membership recruiter, centre manager, lots of volunteering all over the UK – butterfly counts, bird counts, breeding bird counts etc lots of counts
Sales
Started my own Landscape Photography Workshop business, holiday in Swaledale, Hebrides, Malham, Flamborough, and custom workshops.
this coincided with Dad having dementia, sold house, decided to really downsize into a house with wheels as could not afford another house nor do I know where I want to live, there are too many nice places.
Misc: performance poet, book published, longest relationship 9 years with a wonderful man, no children – just didn’t happen. LRPS
I have other interests but, again, as people have been interfering in my life, hobbies and interests that any reasonable person considers an abnormal extent, I think I’ll keep them to myself for now.
Covid 2020, Long Covid, Womb cancer 2025