Last Saturday I cycled into Brighton from Portslade. It’s a journey of only 4 miles and I’d say I cried — I mean really sobbed — for 3.5 of them. It wasn’t sorrow, grief or joy but a strangled intermingling of all three. …

How doing little can be full of joy when there’s nothing to be done — How is lock down for you? Like so many others I have had the virus. I spent weeks struggling with my breathing. At the very worst of it I wound up in the emergency room, having my chest X-rayed and my bloods done to see if the virus was progressing…

Far from the horrors of Contagion, by Soderberg, this real life version is strangely uplifiting. Last night I watched Contagion. What was it about a pandemic disaster movie that appealed to me right now? I was craving an overview. When you are in living through history, it can be helpful…

Suddenly news is everywhere. I found myself reading the paper whilst also watching the news on television yesterday and thought, “This feels familiar”. The world is changing rapidly; the situation is dynamic and moving, our reality is shifting, our ideas about what we will be doing next week, next month…

My trip to Fotofest and how it helped me as a photographer One of the useful things about being a photographic-based artist is the tradition of producing a portfolio ad showing it in ‘reviews’. This tradition probably stems form Editorial and commercial photography but it has been adapted to the…

Someone asked me recently what ecology mean to me. I was flummoxed. Er….Everything? How do you answer that? It’s like saying, what is God to a believer. Indeed before the invention of god what was there except what we now scientifically describe as ‘ecology’? …

First Published May 2018 as “Thoughts on ONCA” at www.holdingtime.org In 2018 I exhibited Holding Time as a photographic series, a set of video interviews and a single screen version of the animation at ONCA Gallery in Brighton. Below are my thoughts immediately after the exhibition. …

I had a drink last night with an actress friend who has just landed a commercial after years of getting to the final call and not getting parts. She puts this down to her new found Zen calm, a direct result of no longer needing to get the part and…

”Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.”— Edward Bach, ‘Heal Thyself’, 1931 The question of how a person heals is an interesting one. Early European visitors to the largely undisturbed American Northwest Native American…