A 1920's wooden shack studio in an ancient woodland. This is the art studio as an off-grid, unplugged, carbon neutral creative workspace for the 21st century.
An allotment 'nature-craft' artwork next to the public footpath at STANHOLME. Here topiary skills are used to create a botanic circus in which trees perform tricks for our reflecio and amusement.
A literary project that began in March 2007. The mission is to visit the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, one hundred times. On each visit the target is to write a 1,000 words on high art in the age of chav and global meltdown. I have so faar done 94 visits and written 94,000 words.
Followers will note the return of an old favourite. A bittersweet work heroic failure as elder shaman fails to save his tribe and planet. Its all dark ecology and pessimism in paradise. In practical terms its live/performance/ritual art.
Pencil drawings 11inches in diameter. Attentive to the extended mind, bigger pictures and sixth sense. £600 (framed)
A single edition of (6) photographs on the theme of pensioner as addict, artist, loner etc. £450 each (framed)
A tiny but perfectly formed veranda at STANHOLME becomes a bucolic platform for a summer of public art.
A single edition of (6) photographs on the theme of tree graffiti. In this caase it is 'THINKING TREES' and the nammes of great philosophers. £450 each (framed).
A series of landscapes on the theme of Thomas Bewick's beginnings in the Tyne Valley. Black because they are done at night on blck paper. But really black because we have now trashed the avian life so miraculously loved and celebrated by Bewick. £600 each (framed).
