Continuing Work

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

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

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

A new piece for the exhibition in June.

On Tuesday I made my way to Shotover to work on a piece I've been thinking about for quite some

Although the present bridge is not that over which the enigmatic stranger crossed, it nonetheless marks the line he travelled

If you visit the Westgate Library in Oxford, and make your way to the second floor, to the centre for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Tenth Elegy of Rilke's Duino Elegies we read:'...Our ancestorsworked the mines, up there in the mountain range.Among men,

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

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

I worked again last night on the 'Heavy Water Sleep' paintings, continuing to concentrate on the texture. For the first

Less a Goethean observation and a more general observation with reference to the Goethean method (click here to read more

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

I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favourite gods.Roads go on While we forget, and

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

Family Tree (Travel)Mountain - DistanceCoal mines (chalk work?)Tailor - suitDreamcatcherBroken HayesBlackboard - Auschwitz Drawings (graphite/chalk) coal?TwinnedShoe MountainDeckchairsTour StoriesJohn Gwynn's survey

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

This weekend, I was drawing with my children. Eliot was drawing in his usual style... ...and as I watched, I

On the first day of this month, I travelled to Paris on Eurostar and met my girlfriend Monika at the