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“It’s been a strangely busy past few weeks, to the point where I’m not entirely sure where all my time disappeared to. Well, I guess first there’s the fact that three friends and I have formed…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“The new issue of Mycelium Parish News (copies are still available on Etsy - details in that last link) arrived on my doormat this morning, full of the interesting things that James Burt and Dan Sumption…”
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“I’ve been quite good at maintaining the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice so far this year - yesterday was the fourth session of 2026 so far. I continued using a combination of 4B and 6B…”
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“I’m going to be exhibiting two pieces of my artwork as part of Hastings Arts Forum’s “New Members 2026” group exhibition. The exhibition runs from 18th to 29th March 2026 at the Hastings Arts…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“In my last post at the end of January about the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice I wrote about using the second of the two drawings as a starting point for February’s work, with a broad idea…”
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“This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival on the theme of “Intersecting Interests” being hosted by Zachary Kai: For this month's carnival, write about where your interests intersect.…”
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“I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. The first drawing (detail at the top of this post) took two forty-minute…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“Earlier today I heard that there was yet another attempt being made to reboot the late 70s TV show Blake’s 7. I have a particular fondness for Blake’s 7 and by coincidence I recently finished my latest…”
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“I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particular style of pencil work that achieved the result I wanted, which I didn’t manage to do although…”
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“This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence for this website (which was originally launched…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and demands…”
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“In a post here back in 2020—entitled Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral—I mentioned that culture and the arts are the main way to inspire someone about a political viewpoint: Despite…”
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“This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
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“This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s torchlit procession. I wrote about this last year in a piece called Collective joy & collective ownership of ritual so I won’t describe…”