• Wave (goodbye)

    This weekend, two years after her death, we scattered mum's ashes into the sea at a few places that have played a part in our lives as a family; Chesil Beach, Swanage and Shell Bay. Swanage was a favourite destination for several years. We often went there with my nan and grandad (pictured below), and as we stood on the beach on Sunday morning, … Continue Reading

    Wave (goodbye)

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Wave (goodbye)

Wave (goodbye)

This weekend, two years after her death, we scattered mum's ashes into the sea at a few places that have ...
Now In The Past Of An Unreal Place

Now In The Past Of An Unreal Place

The image below is one of the extended backdrops I've created using early 20th century studio portraits. It has, I ...
Return to Graphite

Return to Graphite

I used to work quite a bit with oil and graphite and have, in the last few days, returned to ...
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Genius

I was recently gifted David Whyte's beautiful book 'Consolations' by a friend in which, for the word genius, he writes: ...
Latest Backdrops

Latest Backdrops

Fragments of early 20th century backdrops, lifted from photographs then digitally extended with titles taken from Rilke's 'Duino Elegies'. The ...
Extended Backdrops

Extended Backdrops

Further to my last blog, I have created some more extended backdrops using old, WWI postcards ...
Backdrops

Backdrops

I’ve been working on the theme of backdrops lately, using those in early 20th century portrait photographs such as that ...
Komorebi

Komorebi

I discovered a lovely Japanese word today which describes the very things I've been painting and filming in the woods ...
Acorns

Acorns

In my work I have always been interested in the past and how we can empathise with those who lived ...
Scroll Work

Scroll Work

I've been looking at ways of developing work with scrolls and in particular, how to utilise the background of the ...
Goethean Observation: Japanese Scroll

Goethean Observation: Japanese Scroll

Introduction There are many different interpretations of the Geothean (a method of observing as described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
Mistakes

Mistakes

I like it when I make mistakes, or, as in the case of this painting, it wasn't going the way ...
The Leaf Is Singing Still

The Leaf Is Singing Still

A music work in progress the title of which comes from Mary Oliver: "What can I say that I have ...
Past Present

Past Present

After completing a recent painting (see below), I wondered whether to add colour as per the initial idea, but I ...
Scrolls

Scrolls

I'm going to be producing some scrolls using the shadow calligraphy I've created in the woods and having had a ...
As Yet Untitled

As Yet Untitled

I've started a new painting on an 80cm square canvas which takes the concept of shadows cast by trees in ...
Holes

Holes

Whilst painting in the woods at the weekend, I also used my shadows notebook, painting some of the shadows which ...
Scroll

Scroll

The paintings I made at Shotover, using ink, rice paper and calligraphy brushes, are like written characters from an unknown ...
A Calligraphy of Shadows

A Calligraphy of Shadows

Taking advantage of the beautiful, sunny weather today, I got up at the crack of dawn and drove over to ...
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More Paintings

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Through the Shadows I oil on canvas

Latest Paintings

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Walking Meditation 2

Following on from my first walking meditation, I did another, again around Blenheim Park, the list from which is below ...
Knowing We Are There

Knowing We Are There

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Venice by Moonlight 1840

Venice by Moonlight 1840

Yesterday I made my way to London to see the 'Sargent and Fashion' exhibition at Tate Britain which really is ...
Fragments and Additions

Fragments and Additions

I've always been interested in the idea of fragments of the past and how, mentally, we add to them in ...
Reimagining The Past

Reimagining The Past

This post follows on from one I wrote previously on 'Rinsho'. Below are two painting I made in woods in ...
Photograph taken during a walking meditation

Walking Meditation 1

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Grief II

Grief II

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Three New Paintings

Completed this evening... Old Note, oil on board, 2023 Sun Breaks Through, oil on board, 2023 Sunburst, oil on board, ...
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Nana’s Mountain

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Painting

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