Continuing Work

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

This weekend, I was drawing with my children. Eliot was drawing in his usual style... ...and as I watched, I

It was in the small square, at southern end of Kondylaki Street, where we met two brothers, coaxing as best

Having recently bought and iPad Pro and pencil, I decided to start drawing in a style inspired to some extent

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

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

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

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The past is silent. To know the past, one must know silence. The theme of silence has come up a

On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,

The backgrounds of these postcards have become of great interest to me in as far as they help elicit a

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I worked again tonight on the studies for Heavy Water Sleep, working in landscape elements such as trees and sky.

After my research in the National Archives, I took the document I'd discovered (the Surgeon's Journal from teh voyage of

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

In January this year, I used words from two seemingly unrelated books to create an installation in Shotover Country Park

I am not, at least as far as I’m aware, a sculptor, but I think that what I’m striving to

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

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

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More work using the iPad Pro and pencil.

Reading Clive James' Poetry Notebook, I find myself a little better prepared to tackle the task of writing a poem;

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

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

I discovered Stephen Hedges about a year ago whilst researching my great-great-great-grandfather Richard Hedges (1808-1882). The two of them were

The latest in a series of works entitled 'Missded'. Photos below show original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

The following text can be found on my website under Places. Click here for more on Ieper."I should like us

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Having completed the stitching for '"Missded' 3", I've now cut it up to create the 'tokens' shown below.

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