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David Abbott

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Topic: Travel

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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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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May squared

May 16, 2025

Can't get enough of this May.

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May

May 07, 2025

Spring is another country

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Islanded

March 18, 2025

On the shore that first day were ocean-pocked plastic buoys, steel oil drums, nylon rope, hemp rope. A toilet seat.

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East Anglia

January 28, 2025

A two day trip east at the tail of last year to Suffolk and Norfolk

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Interior

January 22, 2025

Dust doesn’t settle here but thickens the air like cornflour.

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Wells

November 30, 2024

I spent the last afternoon in November walking around and around Wells Cathedral.

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Worcester

November 27, 2024

November visit to Worcester cathedral

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Shooting in the dark

November 20, 2024

The small car park at the start of the Ridgeway is half full of camper vans. No one is stirring at 6:45am and there are no other walkers when I bounce the car over the uneven surface of the car park, grab my camera and start up the ancient track.

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Snowshill

November 02, 2024

Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade's house in Gloucestershire and Gloucester Cathedral.

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October song

October 24, 2024

Sunrise mid-October, Hunter's Moon, Cornwall

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Devonia

June 23, 2024

Three days camping and walking in Devon and Dorset

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Skye

April 07, 2024

Photos from a brief Easter visit to Skye

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