This oak must have drunk from the spring around its roots for 200 or 300 years I should think. The pond is the bottom edge of the graveyard of St Mary's Bepton.

Ultraviolet forest floors in Sussex at the moment.

Driftwood and found metal

Just the empty shell of a crab.

Armour. Intent. Curiosity. Vacant.

Faces of two 19th century vodun figures from West Africa in the Jacques Kerchace collection. Photos by Yuji Ono

Weather Poems

Ink pen on laid paper
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Like a fae gameshow! 😄

New Forest portals

"Pan Tree"
By Xul Solar
Watercolour, 1954

Landscape Poems

Marker pen on kraft card
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Tonight.

Moon. Cloud. Sea. Wind.

Slantwise views and strange doors on today's stroll.

13 seconds of water, birdsong, and sunlight... you're welcome!

From woodland walk to cheese and wild garlic scones... nom

Among the apotropaic marks on the pillars of St Mary Fordingbridge in the New Forest is this fellow, supposedly a demon!

Good recent book haul!

Photos by Sara Hannant of people from the Woodland Witches group in London at the St Barbe Gallery in Lymington as part of their Witch/Craft exhibtion

I was around dead peoples' things again at the weekend.

The exterior of the Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton is just as wild as the interior. All modelled in terracotta by villagers using Mary Seaton Watts's designs

Osiris. Etching by André Masson from "Sacrifices" 1934.

The mind-blowing interior of the Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton in Surrey. Designed by Mary Seaton Watts and executed by her and a small army of local villagers it is one of the most important wall treatments in England and presents a unique and complete angelic cosmology.

"Drawing Down"
Ink in kraft paper notebook

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Divination tools

The unlikely choice of Charles Keeping to illustrate Charles Causley's 1982 anthology of Christian verse, "The Sun Dancing", was inspired.

Landscape Poems

Ink on kraft paper notebook pages
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"Bombardment"
By D. H. Lawrence

Digital concept images for an idea I have been gestating for a long time.

An animist exhibition/ritual space called "Small Gods".

Blurring the difference between museum and temple. None taller than 12"

(Photos are of actual objects.)

"If a gay man of my generation didn't strike out for the horizon, then he performed a small betrayal. It was a duty for those of us marked as 'different' to lead adventurous lives."

Derek Jarman in "Smiling in Slow Motion"

Fire stains on shingle