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David Abbott

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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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Music. September 2025

September 10, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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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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Maroc

August 03, 2025

A week in Morocco in the unremitting heat of July.

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Nash Country

August 03, 2025

A Friday commune with Paul Nash

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Music. August 2025

August 02, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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Music. July 2025

July 25, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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Kingfisher

June 06, 2025

A painting and a poem for a friend

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Music. June 2025

June 06, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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May squared

May 16, 2025

Can't get enough of this May.

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Music. May 2025

May 14, 2025

Music on heavy rotation or nice new finds.

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May

May 07, 2025

Spring is another country

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Bird Cherry

April 24, 2025

A poem, a painting

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I like to pretend I accept the ambivalence of landscape but really I expect some subjectivity from it. I want its blessing, its confirmations, it’s healing powers. I want the right configuration of hedges, trees just so.

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Charcoals

April 03, 2025

A selection of charcoal drawings from last year now available

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