📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Avebury, Wiltshire
In times when a fact is not a fact and a photograph is not a photograph, I find a need to blur out what others are telling me and connect with the reality of the present moment.
In times when a fact is not a fact and a photograph is not a photograph, I find a need to blur out what others are telling me and connect with the reality of the present moment.
Deeper dives into place and people for Members Only
With a view of the castle.
Much of what matters most in a landscape exists beyond the influencer’s register - beyond the frame of an Instagram filter, beyond the compression of a TikTok meme, beyond the quick visual shorthand that persuades us we have already seen enough.
In my first book, Churches of Greater Manchester, I reveal a variety of historic church buildings from across this vast area in the metropolis of Manchester city centre to the more rural settings on the fringes of Lancashire, West Yorkshire and beyond. Illustrated for the most part with my own...
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.
During my travels for In Pursuit of Spring - whilst I painted every day, my hands became a chromatic register of the day's findings - as well as my camera, pen and sketchbook.
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, I’ll write a short post and produce a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.
✨ Wondering why I ask for support?
An Anxiety of Memberships