Writing

how we use images

Placemaking and Painting

How we use pictures of landscape to tell us where and who we are. To be published in "Art and Architecture Journal", Summer 2010

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perception, nature and painting


Oaks in the Senses : an essay on new nature painting.

What do we see when we look at an oak tree? What on Earth is there?

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Violet Blackbirds

Colour perception and the representation of birds in painting, photography and field guides. First published in "Birds", magazine of The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Aug-Oct 2008.

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Alain de Botton : foreword to Oak catalogue

 

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inspiration and method

Swallows at 9pm

Making art from colour-textures.

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