ideas from the blog

inspiration rocks
The other day I went in search of a beach that I last visited almost 20 years ago. It had

Poetry is not words
Poetry is not an arrangement of words, but a quality of openness, a distillation of experience and a refinement of

The persistence of impressions
If I can find a unifying theme for these last months’ travels it is stone. Red stone outcrops carved to

something as living as nature
I want to create surfaces that have the energy and life of natural surfaces that become as fascinating and infinitely

what is interesting about the specific
“what is interesting about the specific is what it says about the universal”. I heard this said by Author Hisham

Why purple doesn’t exist
The colour purple does not exist in the real world. Apparently it’s true. A rainbow of light from red to

the mist of familiarity
In 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, “the mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being.” Is the

coincidence – pierced forms
Isn’t the web a feast of coincidence. A ring carved from bamboo by Kevin Woolgar @kevinwoolgar, a photographer in Puerto

Birdsong Tables
A while ago, sitting on a bridge in my local nature reserve and listening to a particularly soulful blackbird, I