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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…

November 28, 2025

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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…

November 22, 2025

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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…

February 28, 2025

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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…

February 1, 2025

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