UK Encounters’

Over my lifetime, I have grown to love shores and hills and empty landscapes – I have spent a lot of that time in them… Read More »Welcome To My Journal

December 2013 It was in 1978 that I went to the Lindisfarne Christmas concert at the Newcastle City Hall. I went to watch my mate… Read More »Run For Home

January 2014 Greatham Creek is a tributary of the river Tees, not really flowing into the river, but forming part of the delta, and joining… Read More »Greatham Creek/Seaton Snook

March 2014. Just 4 miles to the north of Hartlepool lies the former colliery village of Blackhall and Blackhall Rocks, at the southern extent of… Read More »Blackhall Rocks

May 2014. Looking at paintings, people often seem to want an answer to the question, “How long did it take you to do that?” It’s… Read More »“How Long Did It Take You To Do That?”

I stepped down from the ‘United’ bus at a junction on the main Redcar to Whitby road, and found myself on the edge of a… Read More »Staithes (Part 1): The Village.

On North Yorkshire’s Jurassic coast, where Roxby Beck meets the North Sea, there is just enough space to squeeze in a landing place. The Old… Read More »Staithes (Part 2): The Strand.

I am a painter of place, and through a series of largely mixed media compositions, I attempted to express something of what it means to… Read More »Two communities at the Edge: Seal Sands and Dungeness