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

One of the nicest compliments I received during Friday's private view was '...these remind me of Siegfried Sassoon...'. The works

This afternoon I've been working on a new approach to my Heavy Water Sleep series. I've always loved the aesthetic

I've started work on a new series of paintings based on the Heavy Water Sleep work I've been doing over

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Prior to my residency in Australia, I've been researching my four-times great uncle Stephen Hedges (1811-1885) who was transported there

I've been looking at ways of developing work with scrolls and in particular, how to utilise the background of the

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

Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and

This image was part of a collection I bought a few years ago. I had no idea what I was

TranscriptBerkshire Easter Sessions Newbury 1815. H. Stockwell, J. Harper (not in custody,) and S. Hedges of Abingdon, were indicted for

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

On Monday 28th January 1828, a sawyer by the name of Richard Burgess was travelling from Abingdon to Oxford with

A busy day today working on a piece tentatively titled 'Hammock' and another which has yet to acquire even a

On my journey back from Nottingham yesterday, I listened to a podcast of In Our Time about William Wordsworth's The

Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see 'Writing Shadows') and finally, this weekend, I had

A still from some video footage of me in Australia, drawing out a map of one of the walks I

A few months ago when I interviewed my Grandmother about her childhood, she talked about the mountain around which she'd

A few days into the residency now and I've managed to do a fair bit of research around Newcastle, carrying

I decided to do a walk today, one which I would record in single words or very short phrases. I

I've spent the last day or so working on a new composition which will form part of an art installation

In a session today on my MA in Social Sculpture, we considered the following three words: Hidden, Ignored, Denied. What

On what was a beautiful Autumn day, I took a walk to Shotover wood to take some photos of trees.

Family Tree (Travel)Mountain - DistanceCoal mines (chalk work?)Tailor - suitDreamcatcherBroken HayesBlackboard - Auschwitz Drawings (graphite/chalk) coal?TwinnedShoe MountainDeckchairsTour StoriesJohn Gwynn's survey

With the work I've been doing on trees at the sites of death camps in Poland, I found the following

Graveyards and cemeteries have always fascinated me. The feeling I have when entering them, is much the same as when

As part of a future project I have been loaned two fragments of mediaeval pottery by the Museum resource Centre

Below is a typical, early 20th century studio portrait. The subject - a boy - sits on a prop. Behind

On Tuesday I made my way to Shotover to work on a piece I've been thinking about for quite some