The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author.
: “I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: …”
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. …”
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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Detail from Saints & Martyrs
: “This image has been a long time coming. …”
Previously unpublished shot of The Duellist, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. …”
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…”
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. …”
Detail from A Haunting of Roses
: “A Haunting of Roses first appeared as a scribbled note in my notebooks sometime in early 2018. …”
Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab (4) and (5)
: “The first three studies from the Court of Queen Mab were large-scale pastel drawings on black paper - there’s also an as-yet-unposted fourth large-scale pastel drawing depicting Queen Mab herself…”
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Spirit of the Orchard (detail)
: “Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid…”
: “My creativity and inspiration have been very limited of late. Sometimes this just happens, and at other times there’s a definite correlation with what’s going on in the world. In this particular…”
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: “I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… …”
: “My plan for December 2019 and the first three months of 2020 was to take Acid Renaissance into new territory. It would be brighter and more hopeful, and start to signal some potential radical futures.…”
: “I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these…”
: “Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. …”
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The Keeper of the Archives, a Dream Eater, and a Dryad
: “Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. …”
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Detail from an unpublished shot from the Guardian of the Woodland Shadows photoshoot
: “As per last week’s post, this post is a series of minor updates - a format I’m experimenting with, more like a newsletter with various bits and pieces. …”
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Preliminary sketches by the author for The Dream Eaters
: “There is a great power in a deliberate temporal dissonance that stops you in your tracks and forces you to reassess. The TV series Britannia did it wonderfully, combining Celts and Romans with…”
: “As work steps up on my new series of artwork, Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced, it’s about time I provided an update on the ideas and thinking behind it. …”
: “It seems appropriate, announcing that The Children of Winter is the first piece of artwork in my new Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced series, that I am coming down with a bad cold. …”