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The Artist’s Notebook is my studio journal containing notes on my ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into my creative process and artistic practice.

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Monthly Link Dump: September 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

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Waiting for the bubble to burst

Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world, mainl...

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When there are wolves again, by E. J. Swift

Over the course of the umpteenth heatwave last month, and in the wake of over 2700 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during the May and June heatwa...

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Household food resilience (UK plant-based edition)

The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon...

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Monthly Link Dump: August 2026

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“Hands are difficult to draw”

Since I’ve got an exhibition of my life-drawings coming up in September I’ve been thinking about the importance of observational drawing, and life-drawing in ...

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Exhibition: Flesh & Bone

I’m having a new exhibition here in September this year, once again returning to 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: Flesh & Bone A...

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Dungeness

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage Last Friday my friends and I drove east to Dungeness, a headland on the Kent coast. It’s most well-known for two nuclear power...

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Last life-drawings from July…

Detail from the first life-drawing from today’s session I did my last life-drawing session of July earlier today, making a total of four sessions. I’ve got ano...

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Monthly Link Dump: July 2026

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Life Drawing - July 2026

I’ve managed to fit in three sessions of life-drawing so far this month—on three sequential Fridays—with the possibility of another session next week. It’s r...

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Masks: a reprise

I have written here about masks on twenty separate occasions (this post will make that twenty-one occasions), and my first book of artwork was titled Myth &am...

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Life Drawing - 3rd July 2026

I finally managed to organise a life-drawing session—my first since April—to get back into practice. My aim is to get back into regular life drawing about thr...

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Monthly Link Dump: June 2026

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Month notes: June 2026

Stolen from the 1990 film “Hardware” - Angry Bob. This month started off with a colonoscopy, which, honestly, is not the best way to start a month. *record sc...

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Monthly Link Dump: May 2026

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Against the tyranny of the Apollonian

Dionysos Skêptouchos, flanked by Maenads (a collage of three of my Acid Renaissance photographs) It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I rea...

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Me at EDGEWAYS this Saturday

This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attend...

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Hastings Jack in the Green 2026

Jack in the Green attendees sitting on Hastings West Hill. Photograph by the author. Yesterday was the Hastings Jack in the Green festival, an annual event mar...

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Monthly Link Dump: April 2026

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Siren

A detail from another photograph from the shoot. Last weekend I worked with a model to produce a set of photographs based around the concept of the siren, a m...

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Month Notes, March/April 2026

A night at 1200 Postcards (that’s not me DJing) It’s been a strangely busy past few weeks, to the point where I’m not entirely sure where all my time disappear...

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Monthly Link Dump: March 2026

I have discovered that the Sussex Dialect word for a sea mist is a roke. This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to in...

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Mycelium Parish News and some thoughts on community

The new issue of Mycelium Parish News (copies are still available on Etsy - details in that last link) arrived on my doormat this morning, full of the interes...

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Life Drawing - 14th March 2026

I’ve been quite good at maintaining the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice so far this year - yesterday was the fourth session of 2026 so far. I con...

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Hastings Arts Forum: New Members exhibition 2026

I’m going to be exhibiting two pieces of my artwork as part of Hastings Arts Forum’s “New Members 2026” group exhibition. The exhibition runs from 18th to 29...

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Monthly Link Dump: February 2026

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Life Drawing - 22nd February 2026

In my last post at the end of January about the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice I wrote about using the second of the two drawings as a starting p...

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Intersecting Interests

A screenshot of the front page of this website from 2001 This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival on the theme of “Intersecting Interests” being hoste...

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Life Drawing - 31st January 2026

I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. The first drawing (detail at ...