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June July

July 07, 2026

Photos from early summer travels

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  • Photography
  • Travel
  • Landscape

America 2026

June 17, 2026

Photos and a video from a trip to the USA in June, 2026

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  • Landscape
  • Photography
  • Travel

A bank of stitchwort cupping a stream. Nettles, sticky willy, ground ivy. A plane powers down overhead and swings a 180 around Bath to line up with the runway at Bristol.

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  • Writing
  • Place
  • Landscape
  • Photography

Iceland 2026

March 06, 2026

A snow-covered, five day trip with a friend

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  • Landscape
  • Travel
  • Photography

A few photos from winter 25/6

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  • Place
  • Travel
  • Photography

Music. February 2026

February 03, 2026

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

Music. January 2026

January 15, 2026

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

Different Days

December 10, 2025

In the gathering tobacco-coloured morning a song thrush pours forth its morning hymn and allows me to lose myself listening nearby for five minutes.

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  • Writing
  • Nature

Weary Wind of the West

December 09, 2025

Each tree is winter-garbed, baubled with negative space, wrapped in tinsel air. The dog eats from a cow pat, two peregrines ride the wind.

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  • Writing

Music. December 2025

December 03, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

Music. November 2025

November 13, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

Music. October 2025

October 15, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

Early in the spring and delightfully out of the blue, designer Alexander Mackison messaged to ask if I’d be interested in taking up the first artist residency at his family home in a tiny riverside village in southeast Cornwall.

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  • Practice
  • Place
  • Travel

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Music. September 2025

September 10, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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  • Music

I am delighted to share that I have recently been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. You'll find a series of posts here about the work the grant is facilitating.

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