God Spede The Plow
a video poem for plough monday
The first part of the poem dates from the 14th century, and was taken from a verse carved into the gallery of St. Agnes' Church at Cawston in Norfolk.
#GodSpedeThePlow
#PloughMonday
#Cawston
Bonfire Night, the Houses of Parliament burning down
(pencil, graphite & charcoal on paper)
#BonfireNight #HousesOfParliament
A Lyke Wake Dirge for All Hallow’s Eve - fire and fleet and candle-light, and the earth receive thy soul.
#LykeWakeDirge #traditional
For #TombTuesday -
The Whispering Knights (oil on canvas 30cm x 30 cm) - the remnant of a Neolithic burial chamber, and part of the Rollright Stones complex in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
#WhisperingKnights #RollrightStones
The King Stone (oil on canvas 30cm x 30 cm) - part of the Rollright Stones complex in Oxfordshire, for #StandingStoneSunday .At midsummer, unruly youths would partake of cakes and ale, and watch fairies dance around the stone at the dead of night.
#KingStone #RollrightStones
An autumnal walk in Wayland Woods, in deepest darkest Norfolk where the ghosts of abandoned children roam. Here be fungi...
#WaylandWoods #FlyAgaric #mushrooms
Spangle gall on an oak leaf
#SpangleGall
Fungal growths in Whitlingham Woods on the outskirts of Norwich
#WhitlinghamWoods #Norwich #mushrooms #fungi
Pentre Ifan, the remnants of a probable Neolithic burial chamber near Newport in North Wales, for #TombTuesday (mixed media drawing on A2 paper).
#PentreIfan #dowsing #neolithic
The Age of Twilight - an incidental soundscape by sanderson & sanderson, which I helped out with. The piece is inspired by the landscape of Sutton Hoo and Wuffinga-land, and features field recordings of a red deer rut on Westleton Heath.
#SuttonHoo #reddeerrutting #Beowulf #Wuffingas
Dowsing at Avebury (oil on canvas) for #StandingStoneSunday
#Avebury #dowsing
Curlew at Holme 2 Timber Circle, North Norfolk (oil on canvas 40cm x 40cm)
#seahenge #HolmeNextTheSea #curlew
Two Curlew Ikons (oil and acrylic paint and saltmarsh mud on canvas 30cm x 30cm)
#curlews #saltmarsh
Umbra sumus - Bant’s Carn, a Bronze Age burial chamber on St. Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. For #TombTuesday with minutes to spare…
#BantsCarn #IslesofScilly #SaintMarys
Martincross, the house in Sheringham where Ralph Vaughan Williams lived in 1919. Ernest Shackleton used to live there too, as did the author and dramatist Patrick Hamilton, though not at the same time.
#martincross #sheringham #VaughanWilliams
Two more foliate heads from the cloisters at Norwich Cathedral. You are being watched...
#foliateheads #norwichcathedral #roofbosses
Foliate heads in the cloisters at Norwich Cathedral. You are being watched...
#foliateheads #greenmen #norwichcathedral
A couple of sketches of the cairns of Cairnholy in Dumfries and Galloway for #TombTuesday.
#cairnholy #chamberedcairns
The autumnal equinox is one of the melancholic corners of the year - the summer’s over, the nights are getting longer, and the beer’s getting darker - and there’s sense of time slipping away. This is a piece I recorded a few years about how we mark out the passing of time over the span of our lives.
Avebury standing stone guarded by sheep
#StandingStoneSunday #Avebury
Castlerigg Stone Circle in the Lake District, photographed using a 1953 Elioflex camera. The site probably served a religious and social function - a high place to be nearer to the old gods perhaps, and also close to a neolithic axe factory.
#CastleriggStoneCircle
This was taken a long time ago, but if my memory serves me right it’s the interior of Nether Largie South cairn at Kilmartin Glen. It’s a wonderful place…
#TombTuesday #kilmartinglen #NetherLargieSouth
I’m not a conspiracy theorist (but there’s a conspiracy going on) -
music for tin-foil helmet wearers everywhere…words & music by Jack Heathen
#conspiracytheories #socialmedia #catvideos
Kilmartin Glen for #StandingStoneSunday
Thousands of people with flags in London today heading for the Albert Hall and the Last Night of the Proms, the highlight of which was a piece of music by a gay man from Zanzibar performed by a multi-national orchestra conducted by an East-Asian woman.
#lastnightoftheproms #unitethekingdom
