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: “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. Overall the Acid Renaissance: Arcana exhibition was a success. I…”
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session
: “Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year. After a six-month break I felt I was a bit rusty at first, but it started to come back to me, and with regular life-drawing sessions…”
: “Today this blog turns seventeen years old, the first post being Welcome to the Journal posted at 12:23pm on Saturday 9th August 2008 (I never did finish that art project I wrote about in that first post). And…”
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: “My Acid Renaissance: Arcana exhibition opened on Friday evening, and it seems to be going well so far. I don’t want to speak too soon, but sales are looking good already - certainly enough to cover…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “I moved to Hastings a year ago today, so it seems like a good time to look back on how it's gone so far. I haven’t made as much artwork in this first year in Hastings compared to previous years. Some…”
: “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 in…”
A detail of The Bride of the Sun (3), from my Acid Renaissance series
: “I haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet, but it’s already on my list of things to watch ASAP, and Rowan Lee’s (relatively spoiler-free) analysis of it in 28 Years Later: Where Folk Horror Meets the Apocalypse…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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 traders,…”
A previously unpublished photograph from The Bride of the Sun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 explanation…”
: “Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways. For those who haven’t come across this newsletter before, Cormac runs Temporal Boundary Press, a…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “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 from…”
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Scene from season two of Andor. Source: Disney+
: “For obvious reasons this post contains spoilers for all the episodes in Andor season 2. I wrote about season one of Andor back in April 2023, and wrote about whether a capitalist corporation like Disney…”
My copy of the festival brochure, the bark mask I wore, and the lucky leaf I managed to get after the Jack had been slain
: “This May Day bank holiday was my first attendance as a local at the Hastings’ Jack in the Green festival - although I had previously travelled from Hove in 2023 to see it and posted some notes and photographs…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a small bundle of fur in her hands: I found…”
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: Out & about On Sunday I visited Battle Abbey, which was built…”
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author.
: “Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. I’m just collating personal websites of people in Hastings…”
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