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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…”
Read the rest of “The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness”…
: “Like most artists I create artwork because I feel that I need to - for me it’s a necessary process to manifest the non-verbal web of thoughts in my head, which when completed leaves me feeling exorcised,…”
A new set of postcards of my drawings
: “A couple of weeks ago I decided to get a set of postcards made of four of my drawings, and they’re now available to order on the shop section of this website (£3.50 for the set of 4 postcards, which…”
: “As an artist I’ve always been drawing, even when my professed medium has been painting, collage & assemblage, photography, or printmaking. “I still come closest to success with drawing.” Paul…”
Read the rest of “Drawing as a principle medium, or, “why I love drawing” (Part One)”…
“blank” bird mask by Seattle-based artist Cassandra Mélena
: “I recently bought this rather creepy “blank” bird mask by Seattle-based artist Cassandra Mélena. My plan is to paint and decorate the mask to use in another series of mythologically-inspired photographs…”
Detail from Bark Mask 01, by the author
: “I wrote about the more philosophical side of masks in a previous blogpost Masks, Deception, and Truth. This post is more about the history of masks. Get yourself comfortable - this one could go on for…”
Read the rest of “Masks - a bit of politics and a bit of history”…
: “I didn’t know what this charcoal drawing would turn out like when I started. I knew I wanted to—had to—work in a slightly different technique: the short, sharp, mark-making approach I used on the…”
: “I wrote about my ideas for the next series of photographs/prints in a post in February and since then I’ve been working on the mask and other props, and drawing out some very quick (5 minute) sketches…”
: “Looking back on my photographic work since 2012 I’ve got to the point now where I feel I’ve amassed a good range of these pseudo-mythological characters. There are probably a couple more female characters…”
Detail from Badb Catha (5), by the author
: “I was asked recently why I used masks that are obviously masks in my photographs, rather than using some digital manipulation to produce monstrous photo-realistic visages like those produced by special…”