Photographing Resistance 01

Each day this week I’ll show three of the portraits I’ve just completed, now on show as ‘Photographing Resistance’ at the Forum, University of Exeter. Each tableau consists of a […]

Point portraits

Opening on the 15th of this month, at University of Exeter’s Forum, my first commission to create portraits, this time of researchers in the Anitmicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network. Each portrait […]

Artist Support Pledge #2

Due to the C19 virus many artists (including myself) have found themselves with shows cancelled, teaching gone and technical support jobs disappeared overnight as the lockdown takes effect. So following […]

Bedrock & Paradox

Taking its title from Edward Abbey’s book ‘Desert Solitaire’, I’ve got an exhibition coming up at the University of Exeter’s Innovation Centre. The show opens on 23rd. More details to […]

Hiatus

I have been meaning to write a post around the word ‘hiatus’ for some time, as it seemed to be the best word to describe where I am with my work at […]

Where it all becomes fluid

Today I’m setting up for the show in The Hardwick Gallery. This is the second time in the past few months that I have relocated by studio into a gallery for […]

Score for a Flautist

This month I am really looking forward to my short residency and collaboration at the Hardwick Gallery, 7th to 18th March, called Score for a Flautist. I will be working […]

Life goes where the energy flows

Summer’s over! Time to get back to work. Had my time by the lake, eating cake drinking coffee, swinging in the hammock reading (and struggling at times with) Nick Lane’s The Vital […]

Open Studio…ish

It is the Stroud Open Studios this and next weekend – do come! Eighty two artists will be showing their work, and in the case of Stroud a studio can be anything […]

Paper round dreams

I never did a paper round as a kid, but now I am doing one every Monday morning as my eldest son can’t do his on that day because of […]

Passage #8–#10: last one out please…

The last few days of ‘Passage’ became so hectic I wasn’t able to keep up with my promise of a picture a day: hence #8–#10 all rolled into one. Apologies. […]

Expectations

A final image from ‘A Space for the Bittern’, and a thank you to the more than 100 people that came to see the installation at Waterhay (on a weekend […]

Never a shot…

Deep inside the massive walls of the old citadel lie a network of tunnels, gun emplacements and ammunition lifts, all aimed at protecting the Verne from attack. Today they lie […]

Sprung from necessity

Yesterday I walked to the funeral of Carolyn White, a fellow artist here in Stroud, through the Slad Valley that she loved so much. It was an incredible gathering, crafted by […]

Opencast goes north

Later this month Opencast, one of the series of images I made as part of the Clay10 project, is going to be included in the geology-themed show ‘Fabric of the […]