I finally watched all 3 seasons of 'big boys' by @jackdaverooke has there ever been a tv drama which is so rude, so daft and yet so deeply moving? that final episode. the conversation on the bench. bloody hell.
jeanette winterson has pulled out of my @intelligencesquared in-conversation event @kilntheatre at 7 pm on wednesday 27th may. but fear not! we have traded up and I will now be interviewed by my good friend, women's prize winner, badger fanatic, palliative care doctor, duracell bunny and national treasure dr rachel clarke. come and join us. link in bio.
after a wonderful week teaching at @canolfantynewydd with @rachelcjoyce_writer I stopped on the drive home to walk from nantmor up through coed aberlglasyn to beddgelert and back down the river. it was breathtakingly beautiful.
my co-tutor the wonderful @rachelcjoyce_writer (see previous) suggests that students turn the things that stop them writing into a character whom they can then banish for the week. this is mine, the crap superhero mr sad fog. I now need to draw the crap superhero containment unit into which he can be placed before being driven away in a rusty transit van.
cloister 1, 2 and 3. digital prints which began life as photographs of the deliciously crumbled cloister wall in canterbury cathedral. as always, I'm fascinated by human-made objects which have been distressed over time by the elements of one kind or another. pock-marked pier-railings, battered electrical junction boxes, old corrugated iron...
I was digging around in very old 'curious incident' folders and found this, possibly the very first iteration of a drawing I would find myself doing many, many times over the years. I think it's my favourite version. if you can apply that word to a dog being brutally killed.
