Summer’s lease
With the publication of A Wider Horizon ten days ago, this phase of the Regular Marvels idea draws to a
Category: Winter fires
Chalkie’s Demon Diary
I have written about Mike White before. He belongs to the quiet army of artists and creative people who’ve nurtured
Singing in the ambulance
Everything is Connected At the end of his hour long set in the Federation Hall last night, the singer introduced
‘Every day in life is beautiful’
‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music
Dancing down the years
The pleasures of one generation are often incomprehensible to another. I first heard the phrase ‘Old Time and Sequence Dancing’
Bringing one’s self into the lab
An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor
Late flowering
Originally posted on Parliament of Dreams:
Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…
You’ve got to laugh
It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her
Making sense
I got an email from a Dutch friend, partly in response to my post about waiting for feedback. Margreet wrote
A conversation about drawing
Each project in the ‘Regular Marvels’ series is a collaboration between me and an artist whose work I value. Although
Regular Marvels 