Peacocking with The Peacock & The Printmaker
I should start by saying that I am OBSESSED with peacocks. They appear in my art, on the wallpaper in my home, throughout my sketchbook and I've lost count of the photos of them in my phone.The love affair started when I was really young - about 7 I reckon. We'd regularly head to Walton Gardens in Warrington on a Sunday afternoon. In the really early days, we'd all jump in my dad's kit car (roo...
What Summer Sounds Like
In an airless office the sound is perplexing, like someone opened a wall. You wheel yourself back a sec. This is the world out there. All of it. At first, your bland text blanches, embarrassed of the light it’s known. Then you’re barely looking. The desk and monitor shrink, so tired they’ve grown thinner and blacker and more out of place. Summer doesn’t have time for them. Summer is the end of ...