Continuing Work

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

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

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

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

I have completed two versions of the page; one based on my experience of today, the other (below the original

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

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

Second piece showing original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

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

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

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

The following passage is taken from 'The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot' by Robert Macfarlane. In a chapter on

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

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

Having consulted two maps (one a Google map, the other David Loggan's map of 1675), I finally planned a new

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

"What, then, is this material world? Of what does it consist?"So asks Tim Ingold, in his book, Being Alive, Essays

Below are two portraits, each of a soldier about to leave home to fight in what we now know as

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

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

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

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

The bridge over which our Gentleman's Servant rode in December 1770 is not the same bridge which crosses the River

I received the canvas today and so made a start on priming it.I also walked my new route and made

Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a

July 1st 2016 will mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous Somme offensive. Having already made a lot of work

On the bus into work this morning I read the following in Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places.' "Woods and forests

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

A new piece for the exhibition in June.