Continuing Work

The image below is the last in a series I've made using both an original World War One postcard and

Anyone who has stood on the edge of the Lochnagar crater at La Boiselle in France, cannot help but be

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

Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists

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

Taken from World War I studio portraits.

Carrying on with the work I did in Australia, I've spent the last couple of days videoing the canvas 'sail'

On the first day of this month, I travelled to Paris on Eurostar and met my girlfriend Monika at the

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

In the Tenth Elegy of Rilke's Duino Elegies we read:'...Our ancestorsworked the mines, up there in the mountain range.Among men,

I'd never been to the National Archives and had only ever seen it on TV, on Who Do You Think

I remember as a small boy how my Nana would on occasion take me and my older brother to where

I worked again last night on the 'Heavy Water Sleep' paintings, continuing to concentrate on the texture. For the first

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

Whilst on my walk today, I took some time to explore the concrete ruins of what I discovered was the

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

The image below is a drawing of Magdalen Bridge made around 1772 by the German artist John Malchair. Following the

With my GPS, I traced the route we know the Gentleman's Servant took across Magdalen Bridge up into modern day

Prior to my residency in Australia, I want to trace - as far as I can - the route my

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

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

Continuing from what I was discussing yesterday (see Humument), I decided to make a start on my own 'Humument' by

The old church of St. Clement, built around 1122 is a principal character in our story. It was described by

The images below show the three stages (so far completed) of the first in a series of works entitled "Missded".

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

Today I walked the second walk in this series and made the following list of additional words:engines roarsirencigarettesightseeing bussunglassesman in

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

First thoughts on Graham Sutherland, 'An Unfinished World.' Modern Art OxfordGraham Sutherland, Dark Hill - Landscape with Hedges and Fields,

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