I’m still watching the sea, waiting for the tide to turn and retreat from the beach so I can watch the beach. Noticing how it effects it’s immediate environment, the activity as it changes, I go out looking for drawings. Lines […]
This year, I have begun writing as well as drawing, bearing witness to the activity on site. So from now on, alongside drawings and paintings, I will be posting written observations rather than journal entries. Wind and rain. Have to […]
I am now recording (with permission) conversations with friends which cover aspects of my practice that I want to research, the recordings are a not only a great way for me to revisit good ideas and thoughts but also to […]
Drawings made at the end of a series of dives collecting data on biodiversity, counting indicator species in the Bay of Roses, Spain. On the back of my slate I began to experiment with, what I thought, was a better […]
Piddocks making holes in stones and worms casting spirals.
Drawings of life along a rock face. 20m depth, air getting low, waiting for Max and Sarah to complete their transect lines. Counting urchins, spotting sea squirts, finding new familiarity under water, recognising markers. I’ve been here before. There are […]
Porthole – I am the media – Tuesday 4th July 2017 Croxley – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
‘Porthole’ is a practical (and literal) exploration between the human and the non-human world, in direct response to the places I moor my narrowboat.
So, I think my video is done … I’ll be testing the projection next week on site and the good news is that the potting shed has been cleared out and is ready to function as a space for the […]
In my first post for this blog back in March I wrote about The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins’ theories about the origins of life, and the “exceedingly improbable” occurence of The Replicator – a molecule which had the ability to […]
What I’m doing now, reflections on previous work and the ideas this process germinates.
Sketching and drawing has always been a bit of a challenge for me, I’ve never quite felt liberated enough to just draw for the sake of drawing, and like other creatives I know I’ve never really used drawing to flesh […]
I’m currently working on a drawing piece. It’s drawing in the wider sense in that it uses photographic images from the environment around us. These images are a mixture of man and nature creating marks, lines and movement in different […]
An Arts Council England project called The Melodramatic Elephant in the Haunted Castle exploring the history of the Coronet theatre, 1872-2017.
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including Renaissance drawing in Oxford, brand new sculpture in London and pioneering 19th century photography in Edinburgh.
I find myself in the parks this week; absorbing, looking. Park Montsouris, opposite the apartment where I am staying in the south of Paris, was built by Napoleon III and Baron Haussman and opened in 1869, it was designed in […]
Eleven students of Art from West Kent college FdAD display final work from year two of their course. A broad range of ideas and themes are embodied by materials and techniques. From Louise Draper’s Trade(2017) ‘celebrating the geek-art subculture, to […]
27/5/17 I took a bus ride to the Centre Culturel Suisse, in the Marais district, to see Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan’s installation Situer la différence. I first encountered Bächli and Hattan, at their show at MK Gallery in 2013 […]
Notes from a DIY residency in Paris.
I remembered my charcoal this time and did a two-hour drawing in the shade by the pond. The drawing got darker as I went on; it was impossible not to reflect on politics and the Manchester bombing. Bright sunlight but dark day. […]
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Kahlil Gibran I am not a natural learner. Well, not in the traditional, educational model of; linear, sequential, bite-sized chunks type learning, […]
