Nature & Art

This post focusses on assemblages ("still lives") of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen, shingle, brick, mortar and concrete at Tide...

A selection of photos from my trip to RSPB Rainham Marshes yesterday, where it rained continuously and was very dark. I got there for...

Friday 19.02.21. Like, I suspect, many people, after a year of covid-19, I often feel flat. Whilst the vaccination programme offers hope,...

Click here to hear a field recording of singing Skylarks recorded on 20.02.21 in Ovingdean. On Saturday (20/01/21) I spent nearly two...

Revised: 02/02.21 Birds are frequently used as symbols in art; to express human-animal connection; human hopes; spiritual beliefs; and...

Photography is many things: a profession, a hobby, what you do on holiday, an art form, a form of activism, a way of making scientific...

This blog post is a record of my experience of walking through Stanmer Wood and focussing my attention on what I saw, "bathing in the...

Slow looking is a form of mindfulness and, as such, an antidote to mindlessness and distraction. It teaches us to be present in our...

These photos of the coast from Brighton to Goring were taken whilst cycling along the National Cycle Network Route 2 on Monday 23/11/20....

The importance of experiencing "sublime" landscapes was known to elite 18th and 19th century Grand Tourists; and was theorised by the...

Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and print maker. He was a colleague of Kandinsky, and one of the...