The Parsnip (Photogravure)

The Parsnip was a superb specimen as thick as my arm grown at Five Acre Community Farm nearby. The detail in its flesh and its magnificent beauty made me want …

Derby Print Open 2024

I have three works in this year’s Derby Print Open. Having missed out over the lockdown (and since) it is really good to be exhibiting again.

Gorfanc

In the last year or so I have spent several weeks camping, contemplating and sinking deep into the timelessness of the mid-Wales countryside. I have also been …

Wave Goodbye to All That

In such traumatic times here in the UK, it really seems that much of what we have taken for granted over the last years is gradually draining away. Such things …

Look Both Ways

This head amongst the grass is full of seed
pulsating with rich life when ending’s fear
blurs hopes and tries to lie when I still …

Departure

Departure

Those lips’ butterfly pause
briefly on the skin then flower, drink
until the ceaseless breeze
lifts the fragment.

Complex veins pulse
against …

Pilgrimage

I took a walk a couple of weeks ago along the undulating cliffs of Dorset. Not having walked further than the local shop for many months, I was uncertain how …

Physicality and Art

A good day’s walk makes you feel like your heart has overflowed, that it cannot be contained by the physical confines of the body. It spills out into the …