📍Loci: Britain’s Lichen Fields – Sanctuaries of Awe
For me, more than any diamond-encrusted piece of jewellery, I find myself captivated by the visceral beauty of a lichen-encrusted churchyard.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 Jan 2026
This little place that looks like a house stands as a marker in Britain’s incremental movement towards toleration.
📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country.
Here in Brixworth in front of this humble dry stone wall everything is alive: the stone, the moss and even the boundary that it betrays. It's all so bloody beautiful.
📍Loci: Navigating Kendal's Yards
I'm struck by the streetscape and in particular its permeability - the absorbent nature of the openings that arise in the buildings that line the streets. People walk along the street and then, in an instant, disappear.
📍Loci: How Photography Taught Me How To See.
Stopping and taking time to observe is an act of faith in the material truth that surrounds us. It washes away the fake news, discomfort and confusion of present times and helps me feel rooted.
📍Loci: Cleaving to our Common Ground through Divine Detritus.
These buildings hold clues to resolving our own woes - for they have sifted, shape-shifted, accumulated and redacted into places of convergence, of overlapping interests and mutual understanding.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Bala, Manordeifi, Castlemartin, Gumfreston
Here is the full three days of a remarkable journey into the heart of Pembrokeshire. Lots of amazing hidden gems and alternative locations to visit.
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Brigstock, Stowe House, Ashwell, Chaldon, Kew Gardens.
Follow me on four days of a remarkable journey down to a photo shoot at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. From Anglo-Saxon treasures to Georgian pleasure grounds. I hope you enjoy the ride
📍Loci: Feeling Out of Sorts - Mental Health and our Heritage.
My way out of this kind of anxiety is to ground myself in the buildings around me - to stop and take in the differences, look upwards, look beyond. Others do the same - in their gardens, out in nature, with their hobbies.
