French Castle

watercolour on paper

Toothpick Carnival creations 1946

Castle arch 

Benfleet water tower, Essex

"My desire for knowledge is intermittent , but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant" 

Henry David Thoreau

The White Ribbon

back drop scenes to Juvenile drama set found at auction 1890

All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign

opening to Werckmeister Harmonies, Bela Tarr

What is man?
In the black, dismal dungeon of despair
With sick and fanish'd eyes
Now that the sun hath veiled his light.

Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695

a dreamer of dreams

What are the Outsiders problems.

At first sight the Outsider is a social problem. He is the hole in the corner man.

Viaduct charcoal drawing in notebook

the dark ancient valleys through which he roamed all of his life

H.P Lovecraft as a young boy 

visit to Colchester Priory, Mill, Timber framed buildings and Castle

Maurice Utrillo has produced thousands of oils, gouaches, watercolors, and pencil sketches, relying chiefly on his memory or the picture postcards in his possession.

From The Museum of English Rural Life archive



Thatched barn with Aylesbury ducks August 1935





Pit silo a Dutch barn, May 1957







Thatched temporary buildings, undated(c.1956)







Farm workers cottages, June 1936