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I used to work at Hampton Court. This is a marker drawing of some of the trees in the gardens…
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Another old sketchbook page I scanned in. This one is from a couple of years ago. I was teaching on…
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This summer I had to chance to go to both Documenta in Kassel and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.…
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Earlier in the summer I went on a ghost tour of Cambridge via work, and I took these notes.
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Anyway, in July Sunn O))) toured the UK, and I couldn’t go because I was committed to working long hours…
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An important aspect of Japanese shrines and temples are ema plaques (the name 絵馬 literally means “picture horse”). These are…
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While we were in Nara we also visited a traditional Japanese tea garden. Unfortunately the tea house was shut, and…
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Our final stop in Japan before flying home from Osaka was Nara. In the 700s it was the capital of…
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I’ve split the article up into four sections- my criticisms of radical spaces and scenes I’ve known, of the fashion…
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While I was in Japan we visited the island of Okunoshima. In the Second World War it was a top…
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Naoshima is tiny idyllic island in the Seto Inland sea devoted to modern art. The opening of the Benesse modern art…
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Kyoto is famous for its Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, many of which are UNESCO world heritage sites. There are…
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Here’s some more photos of Kyoto. I have split the pictures up into several entries. You can see more photos…
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When I was in Japan I went to the Studio Ghibli Museum just outside of Tokyo. Sadly pictures were not allowed…
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Here’s some photos of details of the Zen moss gardens of Kyoto.
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Here’s some photos of Kyoto. I have split the pictures up into several entries. You can see more photos from…
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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, based on the folk tale Tam Lin and Eliot’s Four Quartets, is one…
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Here’s a selection of instagram photos I took in Tokyo. I felt I was giving it short shrift only having…
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I took a lot of photos in Japan, and it’s taken me a while to sort through them. I’ll be…
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I’ve got a large number of cacti and succulents, some of which I’ve had for years (and have their own…
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After Malcesine, Limone sul Garda and Riva del Garda, I present to you Torbole. I went to Torbole just because…
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So far I’ve shown you Malcesine and Limone sul Garda. I also took the boat to Riva del Garda at…
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Now I’m heading over to Limone sul Garda on the other side of the lake. I didn’t spend much money…
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At the end of May I went on a last-minute trip to Italy by myself. I had given up my…
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My mother lives in a small town in Northern France called Lassay-les-Châteaux. For a few years she’s had a holiday…
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I was watching a BBC series recently about the history of the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and it…
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I love to travel, but I don’t have much money. Although long-haul flights and luxury holidays are out of my…
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I went to Mont St Michel last week for the first time in years. It’s a medieval abbey on an…
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15 fun and effective ways to brush up on your foreign language skills.
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About 6 weeks ago I went on a short break to Denmark and Sweden. It shows how busy I’ve been…
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People who don’t make or read them much themselves sometimes ask me why I still make zines, even though the…
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My zine, Fanzine Ynfytyn, is named after a song by Welsh language post-punk band Datblygu (“Develop”). The name could be…
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Here’s some more pictures of Paris, this time of the Canal Sainte-Martin, once again taken with an old Pentax ME…
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I actually attended this funeral/memorial for children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones over 2 years ago. I had meant to write…
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When I was in Liechtenstein, I went to the Modern Art museum there. I was really impressed with the quality…
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While I was in Paris I visited the famous Père Lachaise cemetery, and took a lot of photos both monochrome…
