Various early-October musings
: “Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Art”
Month Notes, September 2025
View out from Agios Georgios Beach on Naxos. Photograph by the author.
: “I’ve just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, followed by ten days on the island of Naxos—and I’m feeling fully relaxed for the first time in as long as…”
Acid Renaissance: Arcana - coda
: “Artists often take photos of their exhibitions being put up, but never after they’ve been taken down: nothing to see here, please move along. …”
Life-drawing August 2025
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session
: “Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year. …”
Acid Renaissance: Arcana open
: “My Acid Renaissance: Arcana exhibition opened on Friday evening, and it seems to be going well so far. …”
Exhibition: Acid Renaissance: Arcana
: “I’m really happy to let you all know that I’m having a new exhibition here in Hastings in August this year, my first solo exhibition since Children of Mab in Treadwell’s bookshop in London back…”
Week Notes: mid-June, 2025
More strangeness from Hastings’ antique shops. Out of shot are a small coffin and a stuffed badger. Photograph by the author.
: “Here in Hastings the summer is starting to manifest itself in the form of warmer and sunnier days and, consequently, the number of tourists is starting to rise. That’s good for all the local small…”
Acid Renaissance - June 2025 update
A previously unpublished photograph from The Bride of the Sun
: “As I try to pull myself out of my current bout of artistic block and resume work on my Acid Renaissance series, I think it’s worthwhile—if only for myself!—trying to put together a new…”
Exhibition: Hastings Arts Forum spring show
: “I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm…”
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Some notes on recent (in)activity
: “I’m starting to feel that — finally! — some thoughts are starting to come together for some new artwork. It’s been a particularly uncreative past few months for me, so this comes as a very…”
Life Model Rates 2025
Life-drawing 1 March 2024, by the author. Sanguine Pencil on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper.
: “I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! …”
Planning for 2025
My studio
: “We’re two weeks into the new year, but I feel like I’m still in first gear: there has been no “hitting the ground running” — or any other similar corporate-speak — here. In addition to the…”
My artwork in 2024
: “All-in-all 2024 has not been a very productive year in terms of artwork - mainly because of too much time and headspace spent in moving to a new home in Hastings, on top of my day job. …”
I have plans to do some planning
: “I’ve got three weeks booked off as holiday from my day job over Christmas/New Year. There are two reasons for this: firstly because I haven’t taken any holiday since May and I need to use it up…”
The Marsh Spirit
A detail from another shot in the Marsh Spirit photoshoot
: “Most of the time I have at least some idea who the characters that I photograph are. Not so in this case - I came up with the title of The Marsh Spirit after the event. …”
Contemplating Acid Renaissance short video pieces
Photograph by the author
: “I am once again pondering if/how to make some short video pieces for my Acid Renaissance series. …”
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Lamia: my first new artwork made in Hastings
A detail from another shot in the Lamia photoshoot
: “Two weekends ago my studio in my flat here in Hastings got its first proper use: a session of life-drawing (drawings below) followed by the Lamia photoshoot (prints of which are available here). …”
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The Green Man in every shadow
HAG installation, by artist Beccy McCray
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Michelangelo, David, marble, 1501–04 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence)
: “This post is a follow-up to my post from last year September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and I draw upon a lot of the concepts I laid out there. It’s a little longer and rantier than I…”
Lamia: artwork idea
Two minute concept sketch in pastels on black paper by the author
: “Lamia is a character from Greek mythology who — like many other deities and monsters of Greek mythology — seems to have been reimagined several times during the classical period. The earliest…”