Nicholas Hedges

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Continuing Work

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John Gwynn's Survey 1772 - Pt 2

John Gwynn’s Survey 1772 – Pt 2

Whilst looking through some old research I did a few years ago, I came across the drawing reproduced below of
Photograph taken during a walking meditation

Walking Meditation 1

Blenheim Palace Park I discovered this walk with my children at the weekend and so I returned today to do

Empathy and the First World War (Part 2)

This image was taken almost a year after the end of the First World War, on August 27th 1919 and
'Missded' 3

‘Missded’ 3

I've finally completed another of the stitched works - "'Missded' 3". Below is the original drawing made by me and
Landscape DNA: The Simultaneity of Stories-So-Far

Landscape DNA: The Simultaneity of Stories-So-Far

The Past is Time without a ticking clock. A place where paths and roads are measured in years. The Present
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
Trees Triptych

Trees Triptych

A triptych comprising photographs taken at Shotover on Sunday.
Hafodyrynys and Surrounds

Hafodyrynys

A few months ago when I interviewed my Grandmother about her childhood, she talked about the mountain around which she'd
Larkin Room, St. John's College

The Gate

The project I am working on for the Travel and Trauma (Dark Tourism) conference (11-12th April) is now - in
World War 1 Serviceman

The Keening Landscape

I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his
John Gwynn's Survey 1772

John Gwynn’s Survey 1772

Remarkable evidence of those who lived in Oxford around the time the notice appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal can be

Undermined

During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled 'Undermined' about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal
06-07

Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 6 & 7

Original VersionVersion 1Version 2
The Past in Pastoral

The Past in Pastoral

July 1st 2016 will mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous Somme offensive. Having already made a lot of work
The Somme

The Somme

“Frontiers are lines. Millions of men are dead because of these lines.” Georges PerecThe name Somme is, in the minds
Connections

Connections

Two images from two separate projects: Heavy Water Sleep (top) and Fragment (below).

Stories

In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive
Paris

Parisian Cemeteries

Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,
Chinese Landscape Painting

Chinese Landscape Painting

I've never before considered myself a fan of Chinese art but there have been times (most recently in the British
Map Work

Completed Map

Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a
Trees and Other Projects

Trees and Other Projects

I have been photographing the same trees - shown above - for almost 18 months now, and what started as
12-13 Original Version

Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 12 & 13

Original VersionVersion 1Version 2
Convict Trail II

Convict Trail II

This afternoon I visited the library and found a map of Radley and its surrounds dating from 1811; 17 years
Trench Map 1916

Maps and Ivory Gurney

On the bus into work this morning I read the following in Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places.' "Woods and forests
Hafodyrynys and Surrounds

Reading Roads

IntroductionIn Wales in 2008 I walked a path along which my great grandfather had walked every day from his home
'Missded' 4

‘Missded’ 4

I've finally finished stitching the fourth in the 'Missded' series of stitched works which I began some time ago. The
More Little Words

More Little Words

Leading on from my last post about my son's scribbled post-it notes, I looked again at the tracings I made

Roads by Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favourite gods.Roads go on While we forget, and
Bartlemas Chapel Excavation

The Material World

"What, then, is this material world? Of what does it consist?"So asks Tim Ingold, in his book, Being Alive, Essays
Empathy/Exchange: 668 grams

Empathy/Exchange: 668 grams

This follows on from my last post - Goethean Observation: Pilgrims of the Wild, 1935. I made this observation after

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