Continuing Work

I was thinking about the post World War I landscape and how the years after 1918 saw a surge in

I discovered Stephen Hedges about a year ago whilst researching my great-great-great-grandfather Richard Hedges (1808-1882). The two of them were

More work using the iPad Pro and pencil.

As a child I spent many hours drawing maps of imaginary lands to which in my mind I would often

On Monday 28th January 1828, a sawyer by the name of Richard Burgess was travelling from Abingdon to Oxford with

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

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

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

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

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

Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists

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

Prior to my residency in Australia, I've been researching my four-times great uncle Stephen Hedges (1811-1885) who was transported there

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

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

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

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

Last night I watched Chris Marker's film 'Sans Soleil' or 'Sunless', and having watched it, downloaded the text from the

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

At the end of Nobbys beach can be found Nobbys Island. Once a rocky outcrop, the island was joined to

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

Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see 'Writing Shadows') and finally, this weekend, I had

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

I've almost completed my map of observations made during a number of walks over the past few weeks and am

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

This afternoon I visited the library and found a map of Radley and its surrounds dating from 1811; 17 years

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

Having written to Radley College about my project, I received some very helpful information for which I'm very grateful. I

A few days into the residency now and I've managed to do a fair bit of research around Newcastle, carrying

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