Continuing Work

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

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

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

It was in the small square, at southern end of Kondylaki Street, where we met two brothers, coaxing as best

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

Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below.

Whilst writing up some notes on making lists as a strategy, I thought again of the Bill Viola quote I

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

Another triptych comprising photographs taken on Sunday at Shotover.

I've been thinking these last few weeks about a new body of work based on the First World War. For

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

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

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

Yesterday, I finally finished stitching together the canvas pieces for a workI have tentatively called Repaired Sail of HMS York

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

Every now and then when I'm working on something - a drawing, video, piece of writing - I find a

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

A busy day today working on a piece tentatively titled 'Hammock' and another which has yet to acquire even a

Following his conviction at the Berkshire Assizes on 15th April 1828, Stephen Hedges was sent to Portsmouth to serve time

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

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

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

First thoughts on Graham Sutherland, 'An Unfinished World.' Modern Art OxfordGraham Sutherland, Dark Hill - Landscape with Hedges and Fields,

Prior to my residency in Australia, I want to trace - as far as I can - the route my

This image was part of a collection I bought a few years ago. I had no idea what I was

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

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

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

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