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: “I’ve been going through a number of my blog posts on the subject of the Folk-Horror/Landscape thing that often gets shortened to the “English Eerie” and I noticed a distinct lack of women’s voices…”
Read the rest of “Women’s voices in Folk Horror and Landscape (Part 1)”…
Moss figure (detail), by the author
: “The “Moss Figure” is an image that’s been haunting my mind since I was a child. The original inspiration was a reproduction of a Cibachrome print by Veruschka Forest-piece at Schnaitsee, Performance…”
: “Whilst browsing around the web over the past couple of weeks I discovered Just a Card, a campaign to encourage people to buy postcards/greetings cards from artists and independent galleries on the basis…”
Detail of one of the author's Badb Catha photographs
: “The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. In Oxford next month there’s Spectral Landscapes: Explorations of the English Eerie which is an…”
Life drawing (detail) by the author
: “As I approach my next art project I’ve just reviewed the amounts I pay people who model for my photography or drawing from the rates I discussed in this earlier post. I’ve decided to increase the…”
Wood Witch, by the Hare & the Moon
: “The Burning Matter of English Witches The image of the witch being burnt for her crimes is a familiar one, well established in the popular imagination. It might be surprising to learn therefore, that…”
The author's Death mask photograph projected behind the Champagne Bubblies and Lux Interior's coffin
: “A very short blog post today just to share a couple of pics from A Brightonian Death, the Brighton Fringe event where one of my Death Mask photographs was used: projected on the screen behind the stage,…”
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…”
Read the rest of “ArtJunky March 2015 and various related thoughts”…
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…”