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Meet Me By The Water Tower

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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art, france, randonneur

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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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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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