Studios contain sketches, images, working methods and notes relating to the projects on which I am currently working. In each studio, I share the processes I use. I also share my process on Facebook and Instagram. The intention is not to explain my work but to invite you to join the exploration.  Just click on the image to enter a studio.

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My current project in Bexhill Highwoods is a blend of woodland management activities and artistic creation within a natural setting, linking environmental conservation and art. It is thoughtful and introspective, inviting the audience to ponder the relationship between nature and human intervention.

My perspective on photography within a 3D space: incorporating digital technologies using 360 cameras, digital modelling, and the potential for failure in creating photogrammetric models. This work touches on the themes of reality, change over time, and our relationship with the community in which we live.

3D technology offers a shadow-play of virtual spaces. This is not about computer modelling: it is about creation with hand and eye. HOLLO is a collection of sci-fi writers: they exist as a drawn line floating in a 3D space describing a person. The collection includes my favourite sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Ursula Le Guin, and Frank Herbert.

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” (Ulysses, James Joyce) … this sort of describes drawing in virtual reality. I shared the development of this project on social media and the final works exhibited as part of the `Yoolysees’ Exhibition curated by Lucy Brennan-Shiel, and shown at The Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea in June 2022

#30Works30Days is an annual month-long project organised in 2022 by 12ocollective. I signed up to submit a piece of work every day for April 2022. I wanted to continue developing fluency using OpenBrush for 3D drawing. With the mantra `a little bit every day' I settled down to work. I always intended to revisit my Obliterated Crow project, so I took this opportunity to do just that.

To mark 20 years of photographing the post tops of the groyne posts on Bexhill beach, I moved the photographic work exhibited in Waveworn into a 3D environment to share my journey. I ask questions about change over time not only of the inter-tidal environment but also of my well-being.

Music for Rooftops is a collaborative music and art piece by Clive Whitburn and Cliff Crawford. Performed high above the audience, outdoors in the Devonshire Quarter of Eastbourne, East Sussex. Music for Rooftops is an expression of hope after such a turbulent period. Music For Rooftops featured a live, large-screen, projection of my visual interpretation of the music.

In 2021 A Town Explores A Book celebrated the 150th anniversary of Edward Lear‘s anthology, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets. I joined in the fun by creating digital animations to accompany a series of online events (due to Covid restrictions) including poetry readings and music recitals that were all part of the festivities.

In A Deep Breath of Sky, I explore our relationship with the sky, its scale and complexity and its ability to reconnect us with our planet. The landscape is a story about the relationship between the earth and the sky; spending our time on the boundary between the two is a relationship of which we are intimately, if subconsciously, aware.

A collaborative 3D project exploring the distortion of lines viewed through the quality of shadow.

The objects with which we surround ourselves create incidental self-portraits. Digital glass boxes, large enough to accommodate an adult, celebrate these precious collections of personal objects so describing the wonderful, complex and intricate interactions that make a self-portrait.

Since 2002 I have photographed the post tops of the groynes that inhabit Bexhill beach. The groyne sets of wooden posts and planking are a human intervention in a dynamic system. Standing in the flow of sea and shingle they are battered relentlessly but change the way both move, as eddies build against them and flow over them. Each post top is uniquely identifiable and provide clues to the health of the inter-tidal zone.

As Artist in Residence at Bexhill Highwoods, 2019, I examine the importance of the artistic process in any creative undertaking. A plan is just one element of the process and the physical item produced is never final; it changes over time as it is edited and extended.