FURZE-PIG LINEAGE
I remember seeing hedgehogs in the garden almost every night as a child but we hardly ever see them now. Between 30% and 75% of… Read More »FURZE-PIG LINEAGE
I remember seeing hedgehogs in the garden almost every night as a child but we hardly ever see them now. Between 30% and 75% of… Read More »FURZE-PIG LINEAGE
I’ve been a competitive fell runner for several decades and I find many parallels between running in the hills and making art. In both, I… Read More »FELL RUNNING
Drawing has it all. It is the root of an artist’s creative process and however frustrating it can be and pointless it can seem, it… Read More »DRAWING
This year-long project explores my fascination with a hill called Thorpe Cloud in the southern Peak District. Thorpe Cloud is a reef knoll, formed from… Read More »REEF KNOLL WHISPERS
The most influential conversations happen face to face when that supposed 90% of non-verbal communication unfolds in front of your eyes. Given the right environment,… Read More »CAFE WISDOM
Environmental art is a challenge as we ask an audience that is already dodging the bullets of everyday life to react to a catastrophe that… Read More »BACKUP PLAN
The River Erewash (Irre Wisce in old English) forms the county border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and since the industrial revolution, it has been poisoned… Read More »IRRE WISCE
Spoken language is intimately tied to the slice of time within which it was uttered and words thrown at us at that moment can pierce… Read More »I KNOW ABOUT THE HORSES
A picture may speak a thousand words but poetic language can paint ten thousand pictures, particularly in a society where we are subjected to a… Read More »SPOKEN WORD
The COVID pandemic has taught us so many things about the true nature of humankind; we can be the most caring species in very challenging… Read More »BRITANNICA
Free As a Bird is based on the 18th-century panopticon design of the former Millbank prison in London. This iconic shape allowed continuous surveillance of… Read More »FREE AS A BIRD
Traumatic experiences impact the human brain in complex ways and psychology informs us that these memories are stored as smaller chunks rather than entire events.… Read More »IT WAS QUITE A NOISY NIGHT