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Landwork and the creative way
As per last year’s blog interview with Richard Taylor most of my practice is self funded. There are exceptions however in working this way I can choose how and why I want to work and how and why it engages […]
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Where are you going?
This June /July I walked across Albania, Macedonia and Greece to the International’s Walking Encounters Conference to give a paper. This blog is not about the conference – you can find this info here: http://icowaf.eetf.uowm.gr This piece is about […]
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When the smoke leaves
So last year land burned. Up on the Roaches, like many areas of the Peak District wild fires took hold, this one was caused by a failed portable barbecue. It changes the under-foot. This creates new vistas […]
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Revisiting hill land
Finding space and moving through, by, over is never going to be straight forward. Environmental aesthetics will be called into question as a walking artist. The impossibility of creating an image of/with the experience will forever be thus. Taking ownership […]
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Ilam Walking – is it art?
Dovedale – the all encompassing view that Ilam embraces. My residency this week has, by default, been all about this. Walking the lost paths that I have worked out and discovered (hours of old and newer maps – transposing routes […]
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Ilam Park
Three weeks into my residency at Ilam Park, National Trust, I am realising that I know even less than I did at the beginning. In my proposal I wanted to explore the relationship between people and landscape. My realisation is […]
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Ilam – ‘Land(e)scape’
Am now into the second week of my residency at Ilam Park. It has been refreshing to be based out of doors in spectacular scenery and, so far, sunny weather. Ilam Park is a National Trust property which has been […]
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Brownfield Research Centre Airspace
Time has flown by and I have had a thought provoking and sometimes challenging time at Airspace in Stoke on Trent. I am grateful that I have been able to learn more and more each passing day as well as […]
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Airspace Tech Boy
I have been helping build and paint the new Airspace Brownfield Research Centre at Airspace Gallery Stoke on Trent. It has been interesting and challenging at the same time. I have a reasonable amount of knowledge in building and fabrication […]
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Artist Soup Kitchen L13 Workshop
The idea to have a soup kitchen is not new. Airspace Gallery in Stoke on Trent has been running them for six years. A gathering of artists sit around a square table (the search/action for an egalitarian way of working). […]
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Landscapes
Making images from collecting pigments, beeswax and having made charcoal I embarked on these paintings. I had to purchase the blue in a tube, other hues are fabricated by myself. I found this challenging and interesting at the same time. […]