No assembly instructions supplied, alas
: “I’m currently planning an Acid Renaissance photographic piece — working title: Saints & Martyrs — which is heavily inspired by the “catacomb saints” so wonderfully recorded by Paul…”
My studio (which is also my living room)
: “A lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism: building your brand, hitting self-imposed targets, maximising sales through targeted marketing, and so on. …”
Detail from one of my test photographs taken on Friday 28th July
: “July was starting to look very sparse of any artwork until, I’m happy to report, the final weekend. …”
Still from Michael Radford’s film version of George Orwell’s novel 1984
: “This blog post is mainly concerned with the overlapping and/or adjacent spheres of hauntology, folk horror, the weird/wyrd, and other related subject areas, but the conclusions can probably be…”
Life-drawing from November 2022, pastel on black paper. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I’ve been talking to my regular life-models about gender, particularly with the models who use they/them pronouns (who may be non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or something else) and whether the…”
Read the rest of “The drawing is not the model: gender identity in life-drawing”…
Detail from A Haunting of Roses
: “A Haunting of Roses first appeared as a scribbled note in my notebooks sometime in early 2018. …”
Three of May’s life-drawings
: “Following on from April’s blog post on my life-drawing practice, I wanted to give a quick overview on what’s been happening in May (even though it’s not over yet, and I hope to get even more…”
Details from two of April’s life-drawings
: “I did two sessions of life-drawing this month, trying to find the media and style that I want to employ, and I think I’m nearly there. …”
One of the Life Drawings available from a drawing session in March 2023
: “I’ve decided to make three of my recent life-drawings, including the one illustrating this blog post, available to buy - you can find them on the new “Original Drawings” section of my online…”
Detail of the cover of the exhibition catalogue
: “ My parents moved to Chichester after they’d both retired a couple of decades ago. It’s never struck me as a particularly exciting town. My father died in 2015 and my mother died two…”
Read the rest of “Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood, and Water”…
Life-drawing, 30 minute pose
: “I took the day off from my day job on Monday — part of my plan to make sure I use all my annual leave allowance before I lose any untaken leave at the end of April — and booked myself a three-hour…”
: “February’s nearly over, and slowly we’re closing in on Spring (even if it doesn’t feel like it at the moment). …”
: “I started working on the Snake Mask in January 2022, and it has sat partially made for a full year now. I think it’s time to finish it. I don’t know why it’s been such a blind spot for me over…”
A twilight view of a snowy landscape near the village of Shingay-cum-Wendy in Cambridgeshire, taken by the author
: “It’s been a difficult year and I didn’t get much artwork done in 2022. …”
Life-drawing, 30 minute pose
: “I have been inconsistent with my choice of medium in recent life-drawing practice - alternating between pencils and pastels. I don’t see this as inherently negative, but it does suggest to me that…”
First three results from Craiyon using the prompt a haunting of roses
: “Publicly-accessible AI art tools — Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini), Midjourney, and the growing number of others — allow non-skilled users to produce an image that otherwise they would not have…”
Life-drawing, 1 hour pose (pencil)
: “My plan to re-introduce regular life-drawing into my artistic practice is still going ahead, even though it’s not as frequent as I’d hoped yet. Some of that is the logistics of finding and booking…”
Some of my photographs in the Children of Mab exhibition
: “I’m delighted to say that the Opening Party for my Children of Mab exhibition at Treadwell’s Bookshop went very well, and seemed to be enjoyed by all - thank you to everyone who managed to get…”
Dr Callum Sutherland (left) and myself (right)
: “Back on 19th November 2021 I was interviewed over Zoom by Dr Callum Sutherland (pictured above, on the left) as part of his research. …”
A pencil study for The Goblin Market by the author
: “For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. …”