Quick sketches from an evening of Poem Brut featuring expansive literary performances from staff, students and alumni of @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social + guests at the Town House. More on the Art of Jazz blog at artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/poem... #poembrut #poetry #sketch #ink #drawing #art

@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥

Sketches from brilliant solo sets at Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in the The Lit & Phil ‘Members Library’. First Raymond MacDonald's zesty desire lines, followed by Neil Charles on double bass, with his thrilling Ellington stepping stones. artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/raym...

Sketches from the Tea House Theatre Jazz Jam in Vauxhall. A first visit for me, absolutely loved it. More sketches at artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/tea-... including those of Ben Gasiglia, Benet McLean, Rio Kai and Eric Ford. Next jam Tuesday, October 14, 2025 #jazz #drawing #art #sketch #vauxhall

Looking forward to co-judging the poetry submissions for @walklistencreate.org. The anthologies are beautifully illustrated by @albanlow.bsky.social - a real treat

Small Worlds is back at the Hans Falcks Hus, Ved Slottet 27, Aabenraa, Denmark from 6 July - 31 Aug 2025. Eskild Beck has invited artists from Italy, Germany, England, and local artists to create miniature worlds to fire up the imagination. I'm exhibiting 4 of my quirky Silo Worlds. #art #sculpture

Our homage to the Swedish Flat Pack at the European Poetry Festival. Natalie and I had an absolute blast, so many fab performances and a generous free spirited audience to support us youtu.be/df5smHbA3M0?... Thank you to SJ Fowler and @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social for the opportunity #poetry

Come down tonight (Friday), Natalie and I perform at the European Poetry Festival #EPF2025, 7pm Free Entry, Kingston University Town House, Top Floor Café Corner. We celebrate the Flat Pack, perhaps Sweden's greatest invention (after Dynamite and the Adjustable Wrench) www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

📜 NOW ANNOUNCING: EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025 This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool Interested? See below for event details 👇

Been busy scanning suitcases of family photos. This is my 2x Great Grandfather, Richard Cadbury Barrow (1827-1894), who was the Mayor of #Birmingham in 1888. His cousin, John Cadbury, transferred the family tea/coffee business to him in 1849, so he could concentrate on the manufacture of chocolate!

Sketches from the iyatraQuartet's uplifting album launch @citylit.bsky.social. My fave song is Beatriz, which was inspired by trobairitz (female troubadour) Beatritz de Dia. It was sung brilliantly in #Occitan by George Sleightholme. More sketches and info here artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/05/iyat...

No drawing today but here's all the little sketches I did while sitting in the café Le Recepteur. It was a great place to sketch the local characters. Thank you to everyone who offered support over the past two weeks, I've had limited access to the Internet so will go back and read everything #paris

One last walk very early this morning before I jump on a Eurostar. It included the aftermath of the crazy ice storm yesterday, with leaves everywhere, dead pigeons in the street, Jesus Loves You socks, and one final look at the Eiffel Tower. Walk with me at youtu.be/yZBv43_PqsA #Paris

It's a one person lift here in the building. I get glimpses of the people using it through the little narrow window. There was a big storm today, with hail, and shards of ice that knocked the leaves off the trees and killed a few pigeons. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #lift #voyeur

I headed to the Pont Mirabeau this morning, the Seine was flat as a pancake, calm and serene. As usual a typically obscure dip into 1960s showbiz, including the actress who played Tante Georgette in the educational US TV series French in Action. Walk with me youtu.be/1btPehbZGoA #Paris #PontMirabeau

These two were having so much fun, while everyone else seemed to be getting photos taken on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim their shouts echoed along the whole length of the bridge. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cycling #freespirit

Wandered down to the Seine, the Pont de Bir-Hakeim was beautiful in the dawn light. Then I found the tinkling home of René Urtreger, whose dexterous digits you can hear on the improvised soundtrack for Louis Malle’s 1958 masterpiece Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. youtu.be/vCd7qUmy6CY #Paris

Sweeper on the backstairs in Rue des Vignes. A quiet day here. I'll cook myself a nice dinner and have a chat with Nat. Two more full days left, from a difficult start the days now have been flying by. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #mayday #reflection #thinking

On each walk I like to choose which house I'd like to live in. Today it was Virginia Vee's apartment, we know her as Virginia Peters, one third of the American vocal trio The Peters Sisters. Her pad is opposite the Jardins du Trocadéro with a view of the Eiffel Tower. youtu.be/DD3vUxE2_ZQ #Paris

My room here is 3 floors up and opens onto a quiet inner courtyard. My desk is beside the window and as I look out in the morning I can see a mum brushing a child's unruly hair and usually a man pops up in his boxer shorts. I suppose it's the same sight wherever you are in the world. #art #Paris

My morning walk around Boulainvilliers took me from Ye-ye singers to a member of the intelligence network Le Musée de l’Homme, a resistance group created by intellectuals and academics during WW2. Watch here for some fabulous keystone busts too youtu.be/TCGCgUOGMok?... #Paris

Awning Shadow 11am Pastis. I'm out tonight at the Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse, just on the Trocadero. Going to see a showcase of students doing contemporary Jazz dance, chamber music, opera, and impromptu theatre. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #pastis #shadow #heatwave

Around the Théâtre du Ranelagh are the homes of directors Claude Chabrol, the "French Hitchcock" and Marcel Camus, who jazz lovers like me will know for his film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The smells of the bakeries are so divine when I'm walking around 7am. Film is here youtu.be/ygGy0Rz0luE

This morning on the Avenue de Versailles I saw a woman walking to work with a cat on her shoulders. So I couldn't resist doing a sketch. It's been a lovely day, I walked up to the Trocadero this afternoon, and sat in the park. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #cat #dog

On my walk today I saw the Berlin Wall (or a slice of it), the Statue of Liberty (or a 1/4 scale version), and the Eiffel Tower. I started at the Radio France, which I visited last night for a concert (Mendelssohn and Schumann), and ended on the Île aux Cygnes. Watch here - youtu.be/EhpRUM0exmU?...

Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Auteuil racecourse sketching horses. I loved the parade ring, with the beautiful thoroughbreads dancing under the horse chestnuts. The dappled greys in the dappled light were just so graceful. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #Auteuil #racehorse

A hazy Eiffel Tower started my walk around the Tombe de Sainte-Marie Eugenie de Jesus in the 16th arrondissement. The highlight was a 20 foot puking Bacchus (could also be his beard). Watch the little film at youtu.be/Hjq7YwsqvOc?... Music is the suitably obscure Palpitations by Les Français #Paris

Last night I went to the Coupe de France Basketball finals at the Accor Arena in Paris. I don't know anything about basketball but I loved how the players moved, often in tandem, it was like a choreographed modern dance. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #basketball

It's all brightening up here today, an interesting walk around Jasmin Metro, named after poet Jacques Jasmin, also known as the wig-maker poet. Back in Hector Guimard territory, so some lovely architectural gems. Join me on the walk here youtu.be/zje6GwbsRBw?...

I always like to find a local café in Paris and Le Récepteur just nearby is perfect for my morning coffee and sketching interesting characters. It inspired today's drawing of these two reading all sides of Le Parisien newspaper. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #coffee #LeRécepteur

An early morning after a late night listening to jazz singer Ursuline Kairson, the darling of the Paris revues. So not at my sparkling best. The walk starts with the hitman from French Connection and ends with Hugues Aufray, who brought Bob Dylan's music to France. Watch at youtu.be/C_F7AG7ohes?...

The morning sun cuts Paris in half, those up high get warmed on their balconies, while the little ladies wash last night's pee away in the shadows. After my morning coffee in the café Le Récepteur I sat on a park bench for a while, to catch a little of that sun. Here's today's drawing of Rue Raffet.

It was an architecture morning as I wandered the streets around Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche #Paris. My favourite house on Rue Raffet belonged to Eurovision star Guy Mardel, made of basalt bricks and sporting giant pearl studs. Watch at youtu.be/y6A3rl0tx5A?... music by Guy Mardel - Monsieur Plum

It was a day for dodging showers, drip drying umbrellas and keeping your pipe dry. I went to Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche today, and had the place to myself by some quirk. I sat there in silence, all I heard was the dripping outside. Music on the film, Nancy Holloway - J'Accuse #sketch #art #paris

A gloomy morning in Paris around the Maison de Balzac. Amongst the showers I found the former home of Edmond Gréville, the director of 1960 teen exploitation film Beat Girl, and the actor who dubbed the French voice of Ken Kercheval in Dallas. Watch a little film at youtu.be/-iS506xVbhs?... #Paris

End of my first day in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. I always find it tough settling in, and hoping it gets easier. Here's my first drawing, I spotted this couple coming out of the Castel Béranger this morning, on their way to the market across the road. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #paris

My first walk for this year's Paris adventure starts in Rue Jean de la Fontaine (where I'm staying). On my doorstep is the Castel Béranger, the first residence in Paris built in the Art Nouveau style. Watch my morning walk youtu.be/5lMPiPowkys?... Music is Monique Leyrac - Le Bonheur (Jean Bernard).

Seedling Pots Window Sill #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #nature

Chocolate Hollow Easter Egg #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #easter #chocolate #easteregg

Teenage Nape Shelter Fingers #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #love #affection #younglove

Cow Parsley Wind Chill #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #wind #nature

Wet Plastic Trampled Green #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #garden #rain #spring

I'm off on my annual Paris trip on Easter Monday. This year I'm staying in the 16th arrondissement. I'll be doing the usual, a walk in the morning, make a film about the 1960s showbiz people who lived in the area. Then a drawing in the afternoon, which I'll film and post here. Here's one from 2024.

Buzz Trapped Double Glazing #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #bee

Heron Egret River Showdown #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #heron #egret #birds #nature #cranepark

Gravel Drive Zen Raker #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #zen #suburbia #binday

Dandelion Dance Sun Burst #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #flower #spring

Pigeon Party Gutter Watcher #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #ink #birds #pigeon #suburbia

Flame Finger Altar Boy #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #ink #church #stjude #hampstead #faith

Weekend Dad Swing King #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #ink #dad #father #playground #parenting #multitasking #swing #happy #knellergardens