The narrative here is one with which we’re all familiar. The statistics are unequivocal – global temperatures have been steadily rising since industrialisation, and our hotter summers and colder winters aren’t ‘just weather’*. Can we reverse this and avoid the … Continue reading Climate Crisis
With alarming warnings about wild fires, and government alerts to our phones, I’m safeguarding a draft copy my last piece of written work by posting it here. Everything else that I might submit to assessment is already online and so … Continue reading Summary end of course/unit
25th July 2026. Traced outline of George (who isn’t missing an ear) in watercolour pencil, wetted and applied to a canvas. Added more water as the temperature in the studio was much higher than it had been for the Tallulah … Continue reading George; also Borborygmus
08/08/2026. How it began. This is a 20x20cm square canvas. Barely big enough to hold a decent-sized sandwich, but which I’m forcing myself to use because learning curve. I’m maintaining the non-cute cat theme, but I need always to start … Continue reading Cats eyes
23rd July 2026. Continuing the cat theme. At the top is my own photo of our household’s matriarch and Empress of all she surveys, and beneath it a tracing in black watercolour pencil, wetted, then applied to the canvas, finally … Continue reading Tallulah
If atoms can be in two places at once anywhere in the universe, you can bet they got that trick from cats. Drawing from the outline of a tracing of a photo, repeated across the canvas. I had no clear … Continue reading Quantum Cats 17th July 2026
This idea would be familiar to any working-class populations in the post-war North of England, where industry was just getting back on its feet. The white canvas becoming a burning book, factory chimneys, bleak housing, and what at this point … Continue reading Smoke, smog, and yellow air.
If you have a telescope. My course ends on July 3rd, but formal Assessment doesn’t happen until mid-September, by which time I’ll have forgotten I was ever on it. I have a choice; pack everything away and reclaim my conservatory, … Continue reading The end is in sight!
This started out as plants. Became an unspecified seascape. Acquired an air-borne sea mammal. And then a time-lapse skyline. I’ve reached the point here where I have an image but no narrative, and without the narrative, there is no life. … Continue reading Rising weather
First thing to say, just in case my work becomes internationally famous and people start flocking to the village looking for it, is that there’s no such feature as crater lake, there’s only the natural pond that’s been banked up … Continue reading Crater Lake v2
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