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Stonehenge, by the author
: “I’ve just got back from Wiltshire where we’ve been wandering around the prehistoric ritual landscape that includes Stonehenge. While Stonehenge is by far the most famous part of this landscape, I’m…”
Death Mask (detail) by the author
: “One of my Death Mask photographs is going to be used in the programme for A Brightonian Death on the evening May 28, part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. From the coffin of Lux Interior (the theatrical,…”
Black Aquarius
: “A collection of interesting links that I saved for later consumption on Feedly whilst on my travels over the past couple of weeks: Guillermo Del Toro on myth & monsters BBC Radio 4: Matthew Sweet explores…”
Photograph by the author
: “I’m typing this in a hotel lobby at the corner of Lexington and East 37th in Manhattan, and I can’t think of anywhere further removed from the subjects on my mind: wilderness, mythic archetypes, emerging…”
Photograph by the author
: “Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…”
The author's stall at ArtJunky
: “So, I did another stall at a local art fair (Art Junky at the Brighton Phoenix, as mentioned in this post earlier this month) displaying and selling my prints. I have mixed feelings about spending a day…”
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The Bark Mask
: “I started making the Bark Mask back in 2012, and used the early version in a series of photographs (Bark Mask 01, Bark Mask 02, Bark Mask 03). It started from a shop-bought papier-mâché mask blank…”
: “I’m having a stall at Art Junky 15 on Saturday March 28th 2015, 11am-5pm, with friend and fellow artist Margaret Kemp: Art Junky is back! It’s the indoor market that combines our love for quirky…”
A smeuse in a hedge (although being in central Brighton, it’s more likely to have been made by people than the regular passage of a small animal)
: “Politicians try to control debate with phrases and concepts - you know they’re at it when you suddenly start hearing all the members of one party laboriously forcing a particular set phrase into their…”
Photograph by the author
: “I took this crappy photo on my phone on Wednesday, watching the landscape between Brighton and London blur past through the train window. It’s too close to the main line to be “true countryside”,…”
Life Drawing by the authorn, 2010
: “When I was an art student, and in the years shortly after finishing art school, I was lucky enough to have a number of friends who were happy to life model for me for free, just as well as I was living…”
: “I seem to have got into the habit of only posting long-form posts here - reasonably long blog posts of 1200+ words. This is not a bad thing, but it has had the effect of making me shy away from posting…”
Brighton Bazaar poster, February 2015
: “Building on what I learnt about running an art stand at the December 2014 “Brighton Bazaar”, Margaret Kemp and I will be doing the same again this coming weekend at the February Brighton Bazaar. Brighton…”
Agostino Veneziano (fl. 1509–1536), The Witches’ Rout (The Carcass). Engraving, c. 1520.
: “I’ve recently started reading Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner - something which coincided with a visit to the Witches & Wicked Bodies exhibition at the British Museum,…”
Photograph by the author
: “So we decided to go for a walk on Christmas Eve in Stanmer Great Wood, on the outskirts of Brighton, partly for exercise and some fresh air, and partly so that I could take some photographs of the woodland…”
The author at his stall (photograph courtesy of Margaret Kemp)
: “This past weekend I ran a stall at the Brighton Bazaar with my friend & fellow artist Margaret Kemp selling our artwork. It's the first time I’ve done something like this—previously I've only sold…”
: “Apologies for the lapse in blog posts over the past few weeks. It’s been a busy time. However on Saturday 20th December I will be selling my limited edition linoprints at a stall at Brighton Bazaar…”
The Crow Priestess> (detail) by the author
: “In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: What is clear to me is that there is a wider paradigm…”
: “On Monday I took the day off from my day job to get some artwork done. The first half of the session was spent doing three 40-minute life drawings, working in compressed charcoal on large (565mm ×…”
Photograph by the author
: “Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central core…”
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