Razer, a rotting robot

Ian attaches Razer's armour plating
en route to a reunion with it's arch
rivals in Birmingham December 2012

Today one of the most beautiful machines ever

crafted is probably buried beneath a pile of dust

somewhere in the south of England.

Sheffield: handheld at 3am

The early hours of Sunday morning are perhaps the most pathetic part of the week if you're trying to get anywhere. Somewhere between derigging a hall at 1.00-2.30am and 7.30 when Sheffield train station opened I managed to avoid the small gangs of exuberant clubbers staggering home and found peace in and around Sheffield's dark side streets far away from those left twitching in the cold waiting for services to resume.

Sheffield, Sheaf Square

Cutlers' Hall, Church Street

Tramlines

Holly Street cornered with Trippet Lane

Townhead Street

Paradise Square

Sheffield Cathedral

East Parade

All photos taken with Sony Walkman w890i, 3.2mp

21.10.12

Helen Elwes and Justin Hedley Invigilate

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill,

and to destroy: I am come that they might have life,

and that they might have it more abundantly."

John 10:10

Morning prayers attract art thieves

Helen Elwes and Justin Hedley invigilating at their group show in Blackfriars' priory church Oxford, where monks have in the past been called upon to restrain wannabe art thieves during morning prayers.

British Waterways & Locks

Bridge 235

Enjoyed a hectic time preparing for Artweeks: whatever ideas there were to start with vanished as the very process of getting out of sketchbooks threw me into new territory. Where as anything can be jotted down in sketch form how can such notes take shape on canvas without finding the information needed to reproduce the idea. Although a wide area around Oxford was covered whilst looking for input, the output was more of a Giacomettian dillema; big ideas, shrinking images. Not that any subjects required of themselves to be turned into wire like resemblances but the canvas board sketches became the main works, and just when I needed a square canvas, 4 turned up on the doorstep thanks to my parents.