Chalk Hill Blues – a card for Christmas
What with one thing and another this year I have been unable to produce a brand new 2011 Christmas card design for you. I know some of you have been sending my cards out for many years now and I don’t want to disappoint you, so I offer you a verdant and lively alternative! As [...]
Map of Avebury
I’m delighted to announce the publication – at long last – of my newest hand-drawn map; of the unique and ancient village of Avebury in Wiltshire. Click on the image to enlarge it. It shows all the features you’d expect – the henge, stones, shops, houses, pubs and roads – and some you wouldn’t expect! [...]
Swimming with dolphins in Cuba
Two years ago I had a beautiful encounter swimming with dolphins in Kaikoura, New Zealand. A pod of perhaps 500 dusky dolphins swam wild and free around me. Their choice. When they’d had enough or didn’t find we snorkellers amusing enough any more, they buggered off. In Cuba last month when we got the chance [...]
Forthcoming exhibition – a short film
My exhibition for Artweeks opens on Saturday 14 May at 12noon. More information about it here. To whet your appetite, here’s a little film about what I’m showing:
The birds of Cuba
Although our recent holiday in Cuba wasn’t the typical exploratory journey through the planets natural wonders that Moth an me normally take, we couldn’t but help notice the beautiful species of common birds flying about all around us. We arrived in Cuba at night and I woke before dawn but couldn’t stay in bed for [...]
Chalk hill hares
Two of my favourite recurring themes have been swirling around my head and made their way onto paper again: brown hares and the Uffington white horse. White horse brown hare (pictured left) was a special commission that I made over the Christmas break. I enjoyed making it so much; I love the freedom of putting [...]
Guns ‘n’ roses: the murder of Joan Root
This item also appears on Dorian Cope’s wonderful blog On This Deity. Five years ago today, 69-year-old Joan Root lay alone bleeding to death from gunshot wounds at her home on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Whodunnit? Who cut down this Kenyan-born English rose? And why? As a young woman, Joan was shy [...]
Audubon’s Birds of America
“With the exception of the mockingbird, I know no species so gay and frolicksome” Audubon wrote of the red-headed woodpecker (Picus erythrocephalus). Yesterday a copy of John James Audubon’s (1785-1851) epic Birds of America sold at auction for more than £7.3million. It’s the most expensive book in the world. And arguably the most beautiful. Only [...]
Machu Picchu magic
Of the many iconic sights the world has to offer, Machu Picchu is on the ‘A’-list, up there with the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids and Petra. And so we knew that it would be a highlight of our trip to Peru last month. The legendary ‘lost city of the Incas’ is surprisingly modern, built c1450 [...]
The birds of Peru – jungle
After watching the birds of the coast and mountains of Peru we flew east to Puerto Maldonado, a frontier town in the jungle on the Tambopata river. The Tambopata is a tributary of the Amazon, and is absolutely vast. We were to stay a jungle eco-lodge on its banks, about an hour and half away [...]
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