From the studio

A virtual copy of my recent photobook has been added to my website. That was exciting. If you didn’t manage to get hold of a copy in real life, you can now flick through it online. It works best on an ipad or a computer screen. I’d recommend starting by reading the introduction, which outlines the…

Who will win this year’s Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize? It’s a very strong line up. For me, it’s between the challenging, passionate, prison photographs of Jane Evelyn Atwood, and the surreal, quirky, AI photographs of Weronika Gesicka. I’m going for Gesicka. Head to the Photographers Gallery to choose your winner before the £30K prize…

Fifteen nights travelling in India. As well as observing the art, design and architecture from the streets, and popping into small commercial galleries along the way, we also visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Red Fort and Galleries in Delhi, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Capitol Complex and the Le Corbusier…

I send out email newsletters each week during term time, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. You can read each of them here soon after they’re sent, but if you’d like to receive them hot off the press each week to…

We’ve come to the end of yet another lovely term of teaching on Wednesdays, where students of all abilities come to enjoy the studio, and to learn more about painting and drawing. Whereas half of the sessions each term are given to teacher led workshops, challenging students outside of their comfort zones, the other half…

AI version of front cover After five years, I’ve finally finished making my photobook, ‘Gently Out Of Time’. The book arrived as a result of revisiting and rearranging more than twenty years of photographs stored on my phone and laptop. It’s a record of the recurring visual motifs and subjects that catch my eye every…

Memory is a strange thing isn’t it? Back in November I painted this tree, from a photograph I had taken at 9.20am on Thursday 12th December 2013. When I was painting it, I thought I was painting the tree I used to walk past on the way to the primary school my children went to…