Arboreal Masonry
On Easter Sunday morning, I ventured forth with an old friend (my x) out onto Brent Moor on the Southern slopes of Dartmoor to join the ponies and the little black-legged lambs and a few hardy...
View ArticleChanging Faces
Facade 2 Here are some stats: It’s official! March, 2013 was the second coldest recorded with an average temperature of just 2.2 degrees C, matching temperatures for March 1947, with only March 1962...
View ArticlePlaying with Space: A Cast of Shadows
This shadow perfectly displays the distinctively pointed whippet nose (with elegant wafts of smoke!). Out for a frolic with the dogs on the beach late last week. Although it was still bitterly cold...
View ArticleThe Plight of the Bumble Bee
Phacelia seeds impregnated into hand made paper flowers ready for planting. (Tamar Organics) Bee is the new buzz word. (as in Great British Sewing). Our poor honey bees have had a dreadful winter...
View ArticleQuarry Dot Drawing
drill holes in granite On Friday, found myself in Bosahan, a disused granite quarry not far from Falmouth. I was with a mixed group of environmentalists, artists, researchers and academics on a...
View ArticleCorroded Quarry Doors: A New Surface Landscape Narrative
a layered history of degraded paint and rusting metal “….I began to photograph the detail in the huge rusting metal doors belonging to the largest building on the site when I heard what I at first...
View ArticleMindfulness in Sky Space
It is indeed strange and a source of wonder how life can often take sudden twists and turns. When I began this particular venture I didn’t realise it would reveal to me the rainbow of Chakra colours...
View ArticleWe Shall not Cease from Exploration
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot — “Little Gidding” (the last of his Four...
View ArticleOn the Right Track
Track 1 (Baker’s Pit Puddles) If you think you have suddenly landed on the wrong page in the wrong blog, then ‘bear with’ dear friends. You haven’t gone mad. It is I who have decided it is time for...
View ArticleSide-Tracked
Have you ever stopped to think how many of our most used ‘sayings’ come from the activity of walking? Phrases such as: off the beaten track; wrong-footed; beat a path; leave a footprint; on the right...
View ArticleA Creative Retreat: Part One
Discovering a visual feast for mind, body and soul. walking across the shallows to Tresco on the low Spring tide I have found a paradise here on earth! Surprisingly, I have lived in Cornwall for 14...
View ArticleHubble and Bubble
I keep seeing frogs. Live ones and even a dead one. Could this mean I’m about to find my Prince Charming? Unlikely. Only the other day I rescued this little beauty that had fallen into a bucket of...
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