Continuing Work

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

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

Following his conviction at the Berkshire Assizes on 15th April 1828, Stephen Hedges was sent to Portsmouth to serve time

Iris created a treasure hunt for me and Eliot; a trail of post-it notes stuck around the flat, each containing a clue as

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The same idea as before applied to footage of trees at Belzec. The number of squares used is the same

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

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

Finished priming the canvas and then painted a layer of Paynes Grey on top. Over this I'll rub some white

"Here in the back garden of the trenches it is amazingly beautiful - the mud is dried to a pinky

A triptych comprising photographs taken at Shotover on Sunday.

The stitched versions of my son’s drawings are objects which, in contrast to the quickly made drawings on which they're

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

I've discussed previously, three extracts from newspapers in which a moment of silence serves to amplify all that happened before

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

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

I've been thinking these last few weeks about a new body of work based on the First World War. For

Reading through various documents regarding the period in Oxford after the Black Death, it's clear there were many vacant buildings

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

Through my research on World War I, I've accumulated a large amount of data - postcards, quotes, maps, texts, photographs,

The following is a drawing made by John Malchair showing the causeway of what is now Abingdon Road. The rather

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

If you visit the Westgate Library in Oxford, and make your way to the second floor, to the centre for

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

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

I was looking at something recently which made me think of the work I've been exploring around the backdrops used

Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below.

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