Continuing Work

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Leading on from my last post about my son's scribbled post-it notes, I looked again at the tracings I made

With the work I've been doing on trees at the sites of death camps in Poland, I found the following

I was looking at something recently which made me think of the work I've been exploring around the backdrops used

The project I am working on for the Travel and Trauma (Dark Tourism) conference (11-12th April) is now - in

Family Tree (Travel)Mountain - DistanceCoal mines (chalk work?)Tailor - suitDreamcatcherBroken HayesBlackboard - Auschwitz Drawings (graphite/chalk) coal?TwinnedShoe MountainDeckchairsTour StoriesJohn Gwynn's survey

Whilst on my walk today, I took some time to explore the concrete ruins of what I discovered was the

I was reading 'Landmarks' by Robert McFarlane last night and was struck by a quote from American author and essayist

Whilst looking through some old research I did a few years ago, I came across the drawing reproduced below of

Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists

The images below show the three stages (so far completed) of the first in a series of works entitled "Missded".

The following text can be found on my website under Places. Click here for more on Ieper."I should like us

On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,

I've spent the last day or so working on a new composition which will form part of an art installation

On 28th October 1828, the Marquis of Hastings sailed into Port Jackson after a 4 month journey from Portsmouth, England.

Out of a small pile of earth, greyish-brown in colour, a piece of brightly glazed pottery appeared as I scraped

Second piece showing original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

Finished priming the canvas and then painted a layer of Paynes Grey on top. Over this I'll rub some white

During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled 'Undermined' about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal

Graveyards and cemeteries have always fascinated me. The feeling I have when entering them, is much the same as when

On the bus into work this morning I read the following in Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places.' "Woods and forests

On my journey back from Nottingham yesterday, I listened to a podcast of In Our Time about William Wordsworth's The

I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his

I've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days with video work and with the sticthed map

Having consulted two maps (one a Google map, the other David Loggan's map of 1675), I finally planned a new

Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below.

I've been looking at my work so far and have started to think about what I will have to show

The latest in a series of works entitled 'Missded'. Photos below show original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

Taken from Artefact - a website concerning Contemporary Art and Archaeology. I'm making this initial visit to the chapel a

When you're a father, separated from your children a few days each week, the things you do with your children