chateau d’eau – the man from icon

Châteaux d’Eau zines

I’ve a couple of new water tower zines, available in my Big Cartel shop or at in person events – Glasgow Zine Festival this weekend, news of other events coming soon. Chasse aux Châteaux d’Eau is a 16 page halftone photozine based on images collected over the last few years since the start of the…

May 22, 2026

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art, Uncategorized

artist book, audax, chateau d’eau, cycling, france, independent publishing, landscape, normandy, photobook, photozine, randonneur, water tower, zine

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

themanfromicon

art, france, randonneur

bicycle, chateau d’eau, cycling, france, independent publishing, landscape, normandy, print making, randonneur, screen printing, screenprint, water tower, zines

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