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Mediaeval Pottery
As part of a future project I have been loaned two fragments of mediaeval pottery by the Museum resource Centre
Day 11
I've been looking at my work so far and have started to think about what I will have to show
![World War 1 Serviceman](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2019/2364854870_655fb656ca.jpg)
The Keening Landscape
I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his
![Template making](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/5167886359_7189ebdb1a_m.jpg)
Cutting and Stitching II
I've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days with video work and with the sticthed map
![An Unfinished World](https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/content/repository/media/20110816131158738/20110816131158738.jpg)
An Unfinished World
First thoughts on Graham Sutherland, 'An Unfinished World.' Modern Art OxfordGraham Sutherland, Dark Hill - Landscape with Hedges and Fields,
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Empathy and the First World War (Part 5)
The backgrounds of these postcards have become of great interest to me in as far as they help elicit a
![Battle 2](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4010/4340366385_e681f1df7f.jpg)
Heavy Water Sleep (Paintings) III
I worked again tonight on the studies for Heavy Water Sleep, working in landscape elements such as trees and sky.
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
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Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 6 & 7
Original VersionVersion 1Version 2
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Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 12 & 13
Original VersionVersion 1Version 2
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Moments
Following on from the completion of my text map (which I'm thinking of as a map of an individual rather
![Map Work](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/blogger/-1tAMWQDOUK4/UdL8A4IwByI/AAAAAAAAAm4/llAGHulaBQQ/s320/HT7077%2B%5B1897%5D.jpg)
Map Work
I've almost completed my map of observations made during a number of walks over the past few weeks and am
![Sail](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/blogger/_gEeUBtoazYs/TPBc6Xy5KPI/AAAAAAAAAVU/D6QS9FNMQIw/s320/sail05.jpg)
Sail
Carrying on with the work I did in Australia, I've spent the last couple of days videoing the canvas 'sail'
![List of Everyday Moments](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/header-image-lists-300x121.jpg)
Mindful Walking I
One of the ways in which I have helped myself during recent low points has been the practice of mindful
Lamenting Trees
'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one
![Verdun](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2448746009_289d0f0516_m.jpg)
Verdun
On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,
![Convict Trail](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/blogger/_gEeUBtoazYs/TJyUARLeiTI/AAAAAAAAAM8/2PQuHeNOFZU/s320/radley-hall.jpg)
Convict Trail
Prior to my residency in Australia, I want to trace - as far as I can - the route my
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Highgate Cemetery
I'd known about Highgate cemetery, principally as the last resting place of Karl Marx, but this was the first time
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Heavy Water Sleep (Paintings) II
I worked again last night on the 'Heavy Water Sleep' paintings, continuing to concentrate on the texture. For the first
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‘Missded’ 1
The images below show the three stages (so far completed) of the first in a series of works entitled "Missded".
Fragment
I've spent the last day or so working on a new composition which will form part of an art installation
![The Narrative Line](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/blogger/_gEeUBtoazYs/TCOg4BP139I/AAAAAAAAAL8/Pc-ZusiNrdU/s400/narr-line.jpg)
The Narrative Line
With my GPS, I traced the route we know the Gentleman's Servant took across Magdalen Bridge up into modern day
![Day 9](https://www.nicholashedges.co.uk/i/misc/180407_canvas.jpg)
Day 9
I received the canvas today and so made a start on priming it.I also walked my new route and made
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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
Silence as Other
The past is silent. To know the past, one must know silence. The theme of silence has come up a
![Heavy Water Sleep (Poem)](https://www.nicholashedges.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC07397-224x300.jpg)
Heavy Water Sleep (Poem)
I wouldn't really call this a poem, but poem is the best word I can think of to describe what
![Molsheim, Alsace](https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/949688930_4f9e9d29ba_m.jpg)
Alsace
I have just returned from a visit to Luxembourg to see my girlfriend, during which time we took a trip
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The Gesture of Mourning
Graveyards and cemeteries have always fascinated me. The feeling I have when entering them, is much the same as when
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Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 8 & 9
Original VersionVersion 1Version 2
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Completed Map
Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a