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  • Meet Me By The Water Tower (again)

    Anyone who has followed this blog for a while will know that for over a decade I’ve ridden along the coast from Brighton where I live to Newhaven to hop on the ferry to Dieppe and cycle on quiet roads and eat good pastries. Water towers are a recurring motif across the northern France landscape…

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    Meet Me By The Water Tower (again)

  • Ride ‘zines

    Recently I’ve made a handful of ‘zines based on bike rides over the years. The Picos and Nyhavn first appeared on this blog but I’ve edited or re-written the text extensively. All of them are A6 folded booklets that unfold to A3 with maps, photos and/or words on the reverse side. Full colour digital print…

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    Ride ‘zines

  • Glimpses

    Solstice ride in Normandy. 243km, a Holga and a single roll of 120 film. Playing with ideas for a set of screenprints or maybe another book.

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    Glimpses

  • In The Folds

    A friend asked if my current printmaking preoccupation with churches had any element of faith to it. My answer was “no” but it did get me to thinking about what draws me to churches which led to a tangled scribble of thoughts. For the last few years most of what I end up making art…

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    In The Folds

  • Tiling

    Coming up in a week or so is a group exhibition of printers who screenprint at East Side Print in Brighton, including me. I’ll be showing prints made from layering patterns from floor tiles in churches around Sussex. This is part of a larger project about churches in Sussex which I’ll post about in the…

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    Tiling

  • The shortest straightest line rarely beckons

    There’s a stream that runs by the office where I work. The Winterbourne, its name a clue. It runs high and fast when the South Downs saturate and the chalk aquifers deep inside overflow. It’s an indicator of conditions on the Downs and it helps me decide my cycle commute. The office is in Lewes,…

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    The shortest straightest line rarely beckons

  • Passing Through

    Some of the half-frame 35mm photographs from the French ‘Randonneur Round The Year’ rides will be included in a Brighton Photo Fringe exhibition between 16 and 20 October. The show is at Regency Town House in Hove, open between 11am and 5pm. Further details on the Photo Fringe website. Copies of the photo book 2704…

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    Passing Through

  • Meet Me By The Water Tower exhibition

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    Meet Me By The Water Tower exhibition

  • Randonneur Round the Water Tower

    About a decade ago I stumbled across the cycling world of audax. Long distance endurance riding that was described to me as “…like fast touring”. The word audax intrigued me, hinted at an aesthetic, at something mysterious and foreign. I asked other cycling friends about it but no one really knew much, it was talked…

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    Randonneur Round the Water Tower

  • twelve

    Ker-clunk. Twenty fourth stamp in my passport and waved straight onto the ferry. I pick up my phone from the floor next to my inflatable pillow. It’s 02:38. Is that French time or UK time? Oh hang on, phone isn’t displaying home and away times, it must be UK time. Open Google Maps, blue dot…

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    twelve