Andy Marshall

Patina 18th Edition

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 Oct 2023

I plumped for Birdoswald and missed the opportunity of ever seeing one of the most photographed trees in the country. On 28 September the tree was unlawfully cut down in the dark hours.

Comperandum - Church Towers

A nod to Banister Fletcher: Church Towers

A Year in the life: 30 September 2022

There comes to certain artists a time in their lives where the culmination of their life's work is caught up in a single piece.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 29 Sep 2023

"Like a precious baubled ring, the carving becomes the clawed setting, the movement of light upon it the jewel."

📍Loci: What will survive of us is instinct.

Larkin is telling us to trust our instincts - to see through the rhetoric of the day - a rhetoric that sometimes constructs a reality that is so absurd and yet so real and pervasive at times.

An Evening with Steve Tomlin at Broadwell, Oxfordshire - 11th Nov 2023

Steve Tomlin will deliver an illustrated talk about the medieval church, specifically addressing apotropaics, the perception of magic and religious ritual in the context of remarkable archaeological evidence found at Broadwell church.

Be there: Henge Circle, Avebury in glorious VR

Avebury henge is part of a vast ritualistic landscape. Here's an opportunity to drop within a stone circle via VR.

Be there: Dovecote, Avebury in glorious VR

It's one of my favourite buildings in Avebury. There's something about a circular building that really appeals to me - it never ends.