Skip to the story Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest The Rabbit Hole: Romanesque Architecture I have a particular fondness for the Romanesque, for as a young architecture detective, I found this particular style to be the easiest to spot. Surviving Romanesque architecture in Britain was largely built by...
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, on this journey, I wrote a short post and produced a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.
It is as though the earth during its infancy first carved out a fold - a hollow that sat somewhere within the realms of Fibonacci - a proportion drawn from the same geometry that threads itself through constellations.
When I walk back up into the nave, the visitor is there at the top of the steps, sat in a chair - as if he knew of the tenderness that was taking place beneath and was unable to enter in upon it.
St. Mary, Lastingham Interior and Exterior
A chance to own a limited edition print of the Romanesque crypt at St. Mary, Lastingham, Yorkshire.
On top of the deliberate and crafted acts within the material of this magnificent edifice, I’m struck by the hidden layers woven into its fabric - not just in the grandeur of alabaster tombs or chevroned arches, but in the silent details
As well as appealing to my pareidolia, this face - this worn and weathered fragment of the past - embodies the words of St. Jerome: ‘the face is the mirror of the mind and confesses the secrets of the heart.’
Own a Piece of History: The Face from The Prior's Door, Ely Cathedral - ink and watercolour original approximately A4 size
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