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: “The following piece written by me was originally printed in volume 3 of Lost Futures zine, published in August 2021 by the now defunct Exit Press. With Lost Futures now out-of-print, it is re-published…”
Read the rest of “Lost Futures: Dare to Dream of the Spring”…
My new studio, slowly getting there
: “I’ve been living in Hastings for just over three weeks now: slowly finding my feet. My new flat is very spacious compared to my old one in Brighton & Hove, and I’m still feeling like I’m rattling…”
: “It’s goodbye to living in my Hove garret amongst the rooftops, chimneys, and crows because last week I signed the tenancy agreement for a new flat in Hastings, and I’m moving in there this weekend. My…”
The political colours of south-east England.
: “Late last week in my current Hove & Portslade constituency the Labour MP (and now cabinet minister) Peter Kyle was elected with a reduced majority, and the Tories were pushed into third place behind the…”
Read the rest of “Some thoughts on the UK General Election 2024”…
: “This is a bit of a technical blog post, but I’ve tried to provide explanations of technical jargon where possible. It starts off with some summaries of what people have discovered over the past few…”
Read the rest of “The overlap between search bots & AI scrapers”…
Some sample pages of Myth and Masks
: “As I prepare to move to a new rented property next month I keep looking at all my belongings and want to lighten the load. I’ve got a number of copies of Myth and Masks, my hardback book of artwork…”
The Houses of Parliament, photograph by the author
: “When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you feel…”
Ubiquitous Office ’97 clip art, as found on bad presentations and photocopied fliers everywhere
: “[Forenote: the title of this post references a volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs, and its claim should be taken with the same degree of seriousness] Back in September 2022 I posted some initial thoughts…”
: “Three weeks ago I met up with visual arts writer Mark Sheerin to talk about my artwork. I’m delighted to say that the resulting interview has now been published on his site: I don’t believe in…”
: “A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the damage…”
My living area/home office/studio - photograph by the author
: “I’ve rented a couple of actual artist’s studios in my time. The first was when I was living in the Earlsdon area of Coventry around 1992–1994 - it was a spare room above a gallery in a converted…”
Part of the Hastings Jack in the Green festival in 2023 - photograph by the author
: “From The Guardian in 2011: May Day is a conflation of three traditions. An ancient Celtic and Germanic one in which peasants who had managed to survive the winter celebrated the beginning of better…”
: “I’ve recently started to feel like my Acid Renaissance series is finally coming to a conclusion. There are perhaps three or four more pieces left to do, after which it will be finished. This series…”
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Life-drawings from Monday and today (by the author)
: “I’ve taken this week off as annual leave from my day-job, to both get some artwork done and to make sure I use up my annual leave before I lose it. I’ve also set up RSS and Atom feeds for my artwork…”
: “This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly blog carnival where one person decides on a broad theme that others should blog about. I haven’t done one of these before, but the topic for March…”
Read the rest of “Complex images can paint a thousand words”…
Detail from Saints & Martyrs
: “This image has been a long time coming. Update March 16, 2024: giclée prints of Saints & Martyrs are now available in my online shop. I wrote on here over six months ago about some of the early…”
: “In my post last month about life-drawing I mentioned that the amount of oil used in the Faber-Castell Pitt sanguine pencil meant that I couldn’t get the tonal variation from it that I could from graphite…”
Devil’s Dyke, Sussex - photograph by the author
: “In a post a few days ago I was writing about the importance of outgoing links as an integral — perhaps the integral — part of the web, and how social media sites seem to disfavour them because they…”
Read the rest of “A final word on blogs before we return to our regularly scheduled programming”…
: “This is a quick blog post to let you all know that I have an article about my current Acid Renaissance series of artwork in the forthcoming issue of Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion (Volume…”
View towards the Hope Valley, Derbyshire - photograph by the author
: “Links from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText — the H and the T in HTML — is defined by the W3C as text which contains links to…”