Continuing Work

On 28th October 1828, the Marquis of Hastings sailed into Port Jackson after a 4 month journey from Portsmouth, England.

I was reading 'Landmarks' by Robert McFarlane last night and was struck by a quote from American author and essayist

A new piece for the exhibition in June.

Following on from the completion of my text map (which I'm thinking of as a map of an individual rather

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I've finally completed another of the stitched works - "'Missded' 3". Below is the original drawing made by me and

I've been looking at ways of developing work with scrolls and in particular, how to utilise the background of the

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

Each string (in what I have so far called the 'net') represents in its 'cut end' the end of a

One of the ways in which I have helped myself during recent low points has been the practice of mindful

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

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

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

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

I have just returned from a visit to Luxembourg to see my girlfriend, during which time we took a trip

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

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

On my journey back from Nottingham yesterday, I listened to a podcast of In Our Time about William Wordsworth's The

I’m currently reading an excellent book by Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, entitled ‘Figuring

I've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days with video work and with the sticthed map

I've been working on a series of drawings for a while now, the development of which can be seen in

In his book, Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization, archaeologist Richard Hayman writes:"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters

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

The following photographs were taken during a walk I made along the route as described in the previous entry Lead

Today, my brother Simon and I took a trip down memory lane and visited New Marston First School which had

A few months ago I visited the Foundling Hospital in London, established in 1739 to receive and care for abandoned children.

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

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

Since returning to England this morning after my residency in Australia, I've been looking at my notebook, and feel it's

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