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WRITING (Summary)

‘Gulf War Cormorant’

Juvenilia. Poem. Published. (The plight of oiled seabirds during the first Iraq - Kuwait Gulf War).

 

‘The Materiality of the Medium of Painting and Writing’, Referencing ‘Pike’ by Ted Hughes. 

(Manuscript. Non Fiction. B.A. Hons Dissertation).

 

‘Notes from the Land-Galleon and Other Wild Places’.

(Manuscript. Ongoing. Non Fiction).

 

‘The Serendipity and Potential of Accidents and Flaws’: Japanese and Chinese Carving Techniques from the Ming to Qing period and the Parallels found in Western Abstract Painting. (Manuscript. Non fiction. A short essay on artistic technique compiled from studio notes. 2017- 2022).

 

‘Small Fry and Petty Cash’: Severn Trent Plc’s Abuse of the Broadway Brook, Worcestershire, UK.

(Manuscript. Non fiction. 2022. The discovery of a live and evolving pollution event, my dialogue with the Environment Agency and the inadequacy of Severn Trent’s resulting £1.5M fine).

 

Adder! >>>Bitten>>>Smitten>>>Written>>>

(Manuscript. Non Fiction. A short meditation on the elusive Adder, Vipera Berus, in Gloucestershire).

 

"As Deep as England" - Terror, Exultation and the Water Column. 

(Manuscript. Non Fiction. Wild swimming as child in an abandoned irrigation reservoir).

 

‘A Brotherhood Braced.’

(Manuscript. Non Fiction. Recounting an extraordinary event from the late 1990’s whilst fishing the Worcestershire Avon, at nightfall, with my brother). 

 

‘The Jaguar’ (1957) and ‘Second Glance at a Jaguar’ (1967) by Ted Hughes. 

Non fiction. A comparison and analysis. 

 

‘United by Sound, Released by Silence’. 

(Manuscript. Non fiction. A wild fox braces against the sudden, deafening, low pass of a fighter jet…..as do I).

 

‘A Case for C.A.S.’ 

Non fiction. A two-pronged condemnation of the Bullfighting industry and why the creaking prop of ‘Arts and Culture Status’ must be kicked.

Completing a Biodiversity Report for a Cotswold Hamlet

Non Fiction. The risk of habitat erosion at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. 

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