time to go back and watch that last baffling season....

as the winter chill sets in I can't help but think back to our glorious summer visit to Sissinghurst, artistic cradle of Vita Sackville-West.

say it loud, say it proud (new graphic novel coming in 2025):

great to have a local coffee specialist housed in something as unique as an old industrial grain silo just outside Bungay.... good brews and locally baked delights.

one of my all time favourite john romita spider-man covers - his arrangement of seven figures in combat giving each one the opportunity to express their power is just pefect draftsmanship. Oh - and love the typography in the foreground.

not often that you can illustrate the splendour of a C21st tv drama with some C16th portraits but BBC's Wolf Hall is living art - toxic court intrigue and political shenanigans made painfully contemporary.

slightly dreading the 3 hour running time of THE BRUTALIST - but glad to hear there's a fifteen minute intermission for us senior citizen film buffs....

an atomic mushroom cloud of gleaming pots and pans - took the kids to see this at TATE Britain fifteen years ago in a decade when it still seemed surprising to encounter such things in an art gallery.

delightful exhibition & talk by Norwich artist Malca Schotten at Diss Corn Hall revealing her influences - Auerbach, Kapoor and Kiefer - and approach to capturing people at an exhibition.

in all the excitement of the new Cure album I was drawn back to this rather splendid collection of Cure-cover versions that demonstrates 1. robert smith has written a stack of truly great love songs and 2. it's intriguing how many of them actually suit a female lead vocal/ interpretation.

the night garden....

genius at work (just look at those crossed hands) - Marc Chagall hard at work in his studio.

more fun with some old film magazine tear sheets and an ailing scanner

great fun setting up & curating this pop-up art show to continue our creative army's battle against avian extinction....

in 1975 i think this probablty cleared out my monthly pocket money but boy was the over-sized Barry Windsor Smith artwork worth it....

another goal and assist v Iceland to get wales back into the top tier of the nations league.... the gareth bale comparisons will continue to gather around him....

digging thru some old boxes of tickets I found this gem from...er... 46 years ago (I believe the gig was Oct 1979) - possibly Boston's first big trip to the UK - at a great but long gone venue in Finsbury Park, North London. And look at the price - four rows in from the front of the balcony: £4!!!

so long before COP29 in Baku we took to the streets of Paris at COP21 and with a great team of local guerilla gardeners set up green barricades to remind urbanites of the joy of nature....

some of my favourite character design sketches by Oliver Harud for our BADGERED graphic novel project.

more fun with the scanner.

if i ever do a psychedelic folk album this will be the cover.

last summer in the garden - a lot more interesting when you get close up and a little rocky on the focus...

re-watching the first series of Wolf Hall before plunging into the new episodes. Not surprised the key cast returned nine years on to pick up their award-winning roles. Such a unique drama - historical but delivered with such a contemporary feel for its characters.

back of the garden/ old shed - ground level sproutings....

some old skool image manipulation - physical pages of portrait-pics torn out of film magazines - then pulled around, dragged and rotated on an A4 scanner as it scans.... never sure what the outcome will be until the finished scan materialises....

My BADGERED co-creator and friend, artist Oliver Harud, is at THOUGHT BUBBLE this weekend, running the stall and introducing everyone who passes to our twisted tale Of Badger, Toad & pals v the stoats and weasels of the Wildwood Estate... think Wind in the Willows meets The Long Good Friday!!

Day One. First post. Just back from the local farm shop. Best of suffolk - eggs, bread & funghi....