PAPER gallery

Now a part of the Paper Gallery family, you can now view, and purchase if you choose, a series of my new works on paper. From a series of object portraits memorialising the literary legacy acquired by significant loves. Each book painting becomes a reminder and lesson in how to stand, rather than fall in and out of, Love.  

Listen

Back from Norway and straight to here. Listen tomorrow. bbc6music. 7pm 

All the News that's fit to print *new edition

‘ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT’

75 years ago Homer Collyer was found dead in an armchair in the 5th Avenue Brownstone mansion he shared with his brother Langley. The NYPD emptied the house of 130 tons of refuse including 1 horse’s jawbone, 25 thousand books, 14 pianos, 5 dressmaker’s dummies, several guns and 15 year’s worth of daily newspapers. 19 days later they discovered Langley’s body less than 10 feet from where his brother had died, suffocated under the weight of his collapsing hoardings.

An ode to brotherly love and the Collyers’ obsessive compulsive hoarding, this ghost edition of the New York Times distills 15 years of minor news stories taken from the NYTimes archive between 1933-1947. Re-printed and re-published for the benefit of the late blind Homer Collyer as a comment on the futility and sadness of saving everything.

Letterpress printed broadsheet, white ink hand printed on 50gsm newsprint, 597mm x 374mm, edition of 5 2012. £45.00. Available here.

Writing Shed Meditations

Cabins I can't stop thinking about. 

+Brand new Course+ Sewn Structures

SEWN STRUCTURES

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 8th September 2012
Ending: Sunday 9th September 2012
From: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Spend a weekend learning several very satisfying book binding structures using simply paper, needle & thread; from the basic 'pamphlet stitch' to the beautiful and ingenious 'single sections sewn onto tapes'. You will come away from the weekend with 4 new and exquisite ways to house your artwork, without the use of any glue! This course is ideal for artists who want more options to incorporate their work into book form and suitable for those with some experience of basic book making. Cost: £125.00 / £105.00 members . 

Enquire or Book here: Hot Bed Press, Salford.         

Come. x

home from home at Arvon

'It was a good week for you' _C.

Tough and magical, 13 wonders and 3 treats. I've returned changed. 

Sabbatical

A short time away to where there are no ways in for the outside to get me, to turn my head or disturb my flow. I say goodbye to technology that daily defeats my efforts at stillness. I have been drawing and making quietly and now it's time to write, deep in the woods with not a responsibility to anything but my pen. See you on the other side. 

slowing down days

Fixing things, perfecting the art of baking sourdough, long leg worn walks, smelling roses, watching cats.