art – the man from icon

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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art

art, audax, books, churches, cycling, france, linocut, linoprint, patterns, printing, printmaking, randonneur, screen printing, screenprint, sussex, tiles, travel, zines

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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art, Uncategorized

art, church, churches, layers, pattern, patterns, printmaking, repeat, screen printing, sussex, tile, tiles

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…

February 18, 2024

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audax

art, audax, bicycle, chateau d’eau, cycle touring, cycling, dieppe, france, landscape, linocut, linoprint, normandie, normandy, picardie, print, print making, printmaking, randonneur, risograph, screen printing, screenprint, water tower

Riding with Ravilious

We sweep down from the opera singer’s house past Virginia Woolf’s to the Ouse flood plain, the first of our Ravilious rendezvous. A heron nonchalantly flaps overhead. The riverbank into Lewes is beautifully overgrown, my shins whipped by wild grass and flowers. Butterflies skitter about. We’re the wrong side of the Ouse for the Ravilious…

July 18, 2021

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sussex

art, british art, chalk, cycling, eastbourne, english art, english modernism, eric ravilious, firle, furlongs, hills, landscape, landscape art, landscape painting, lewes, ouse, painting, printing, ravilious, south downs, sussex, towner gallery, watercolour, wood block

Coastal Culture Trail

For ages I’ve been meaning to do a ride from Brighton along the coast to Eastbourne to the Towner Gallery, and then on to Bexhill to the De La Warr Pavilion. Never quite managed to find a free weekend that coincided with exhibitions I really wanted to see. Then recently I discovered the Coastal Culture…

September 5, 2015

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cycling

art, bexhill, bicycle, coast, coastal culture trail, cycling, de la warr pavilion, eastbourne, hastings, museums, pevensey levels, sea, seaside, sussex, towner gallery