ideas from the blog
Clay, nature and us – an interview
An interview with Grant about his creative life and the 2023 exhibition.
The story of Ecos
Ecos is a sculpture about us and nature, telling the 5000 year story of how our changing relationship with nature has led to today’s ecological and climate crises, and how re-evaluating that relationship holds the key to the future; for us and our planet.
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
