Fern tongues unfurl licking vernal air verges roll and unfold, labouring lencten blooms verdant abundance merging and stitching embroidered banks or primrose, elder and vetch flint teeth conceal conchoidal cracks sunk into clay paths of cleft earth haunted by summers gone by sprawling static caravans neither here nor there...
The Liminal Shoreline
I recently experienced what I now recognise as a critical incident while walking along the shoreline at Ferring. I had gone for fish and chips on a spring evening, a moment of happiness with my family after a long week at work. I wasn’t looking for anything or intending...
Hagstone
Hagstone eye to another world, a portal perhaps between life and death? A place of lingering between knowing and not, between the past and the present....
Monoprint
In the spirit of risk taking, monoprint is another new skill that I have been experimenting with. Firstly, I used monoprint to capture the lines and traces that I find on my walks. I have also been experimenting with using monoprint to capture the spirit or feel of the...
Capturing the Spirit of Shipley
Experiments with frottage and texturology. In my endeavour to capture the spirit of a place, I have been inspired by Jean Dubuffet, who said: ‘I have been concerned to represent, not the objective world, but what it becomes in our thoughts’ (Accessed at: Exhibition guide: Jean Dubuffet – Brutal...
Story Maps and Symbols
Some walks can be done by giving in totally to wherever whim takes you (as in Debord’s derive), some require a map to help you find a way and some you retrace steps from memory or from what someone has told you of their memory. When I was a...
Stitching Steps Through Shipley
I have been musing a lot recently about palimpsests and the idea of working on top of original text. I have also become quite fascinated by the idea of drawing and stitching on top of OS maps. Tim Ingold comments in his book ‘Lines,’ that to ‘retrace in ink...