Orpheus Dispersed
There upped a tree! O absolute outstripping! O Orpheus singing! O tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even under cover came a new start, a…
August & Grain
The fields were sudden bare – John Clare Across the field, a half-mile or more away – across a dry liquid rustle of oats – a…
Sheds and Silos
I paint landscape from life and, as I live in London, frequently the subject of the work is buildings. I chose these four images for the project for their particular…
Drawing Water
Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all…
Dessins de téléphone
This is part of RHYTHM, a section of The Learned Pig devoted to exploring rhythm as individual and collective, as poetic and biological, and the ways that…
Farming Awareness
Visionary Farms In 1969, House & Garden magazine commissioned Patricia Johanson (b. 1940) to design estate gardens. In the letter inviting her to design gardens, landscape architect James Fanning clearly…
Recollecting Landscapes
Rephotography, Memory and Transformation 1904-1980-2004-2014 Recollecting Landscapes documents over a century of landscape transformation in Flanders. The first step of the project dates from the early twentieth century, when Jean…
Kenyan Roses for the Kingdom
During a residency in London in 2019, I developed a research and artistic project around the cut rose industry in Kenya. This was linked to on the one hand to…