Journal

Rock chair, where a chambered neolithic tomb was once nestled beneath. 2026. Harboro Rocks, a monument situated in Middleton, Derbyshire, with relics from the past scattered across the rugged landscape, mining foundations, neolithic imprints, and a cave inhabited as recently as the 18th century. For me, like Black Rocks in my previous journal entry, an artistic training ground. Cave opening, 2022 It is accessed from a layby, through a divide in overgrown shrubs, paths trodden

Black Rocks, Derbyshire. I scrambled the slope with eagerness, rucksack slung over my shoulder, to reach my favourite observation point. I removed my jacket, went into my bag for my sketchbook, and charcoal box and selected a chunky piece of willow charcoal. I sat down, studied the surroundings, seeing how the sun was beating down on the landscape, listening to the birds tweeting, horses neighing, distant explosions from the quarry, people chatting, high pitched whizzing of r

All of my work, from documentary filmmaking as part of 'The Wilson Brothers Derby' collective to my solo practice, is informed by my own experiences and contains a part of 'me', but my latest print collection 'Threshold of Thought' is some of my most personal. In these prints, I compare the physical and emotional pain of my lonely training sessions and injuries as a competitive cyclist with the general rollercoaster of life. With you I will explore my thought processes behind

Primo and his classmate Rita conducting a zinc experiment. Some more sketches from another chapter in The Periodic Table. In these sketches I am looking at 'Zinc'. The 3rd of the 21 chapters, set in a similar time to 'Iron', it opens with Levi talking about 5 months of intensive study in chemistry at The University of Turin, under the guidance of Professor P, receiving lectures and conducting chemistry experiments "... Packed together like sardines and full of reverence ... P

This is one of my favourite books, regarded as the greatest science novel of all time. I remember first reading it the whole way through in hospital whilst recovering from injuries sustained in a cycle race crash nearly three years ago, it put my situation into perspective looking at some of the things that Levi writes about in this series of short stories. The stories are a biographical account of his time as a Jewish-Italian chemist living in fascist Italy, each one is name

Some watercolour studies after reading The End of Something, the story features Hemingway's recurring character Nick Adams, who's character is largely based on Hemingway's personal experiences as a young man. Nick Adams is on a fishing trip with his girlfriend Marjorie, and he plans to split up with her. Marjorie daydreams that the abandoned mill is a castle, from my reading of it, it is meant to symbolise her youthful naivety in not knowing what is happening and that Nick pl

I've been reading Ernest Hemingway's The First Forty Nine Stories, here's some drawings I made of the characters from Old Man At The Bridge, based on his experiences as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War.