Continuing Work

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

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

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

When you're a father, separated from your children a few days each week, the things you do with your children

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

I recently completed the third (although titled as the second) in my series of stitched works based on drawings completed

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

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

A few months ago when I interviewed my Grandmother about her childhood, she talked about the mountain around which she'd

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

'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one

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Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,

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

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

The image below is the last in a series I've made using both an original World War One postcard and

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

The Past is Time without a ticking clock. A place where paths and roads are measured in years. The Present

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

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I've been looking at my work so far and have started to think about what I will have to show

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

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

The image below is a drawing of Magdalen Bridge made around 1772 by the German artist John Malchair. Following the

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

I'd known about Highgate cemetery, principally as the last resting place of Karl Marx, but this was the first time

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

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

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