Main Areas of Focus

My interests are wide-ranging, primarily in how human beings affect and are affected by the natural world of which we are part, and the related theology and psychology of connectedness.

Artist

Creating beautiful and thought-provoking art as a means of supporting care for planet and people, nurturing a sense of place, and building community

Writer

Articles and blogs on economics, environment, nature, attentiveness, applied theology, arts, and anything that interests me

Consultant

» Website development and training
» Energy efficiency and renewable energy consultancy
» Research and reporting

Latest News and Produce

What I’ve recently produced. What I’m working on. What’s in the pipeline.

Blog

Come dancing

I went on an expedition today, all the way to Middlemoor roundabout, for a picnic lunch amidst the trees and daffodils.

Talk/Workshop

Prayer and Bible reading groups

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related workshops and group work.

Article

"Elsewhere" in a Studio 36 publication

"Elsewhere", my piece of St Loy Cornwall washed up in St Loyes Exeter, has found a small niche as part of Studio 36's second COVID publication.

Exhibition/Installation

Prayer installations

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related installations.

Academia

“Live the questions now” 2020/21

Teaching on the Medical Humanities Special Studies Unit at Exeter Medical School, introducing fourth year students to conceptual and environmental art, looking at meaning-making and how we turn ideas into art, making art.

Performance/Event

Performance in a worship context

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related performance.

Recording

"...and the Greatest of these is Love"

In their second album, Antiphon presents world premiere recordings of three choral works by Michael Walsh: an unaccompanied Mass of the Holy Trinity; a full-scale Requiem Mass; and The Way of Love, a setting of five love poems by Rupert Brooke. We recorded it in July 2017 in the crossing and Lady Chapel in Exeter Cathedral.

News

New blog on prayer and spiritual life

I have increasingly been feeling that I wanted to write more about my prayer and spirituality. I have therefore started a new blog...

Random Work Generator

There are a number of threads running through all my work. Here’s a random sample from each.

Attentiveness

Ludwell life

It was a happy accident that the house I bought when I moved to Exeter is very close to Ludwell Valley Park. It is my slice of countryside in the city, where I can wander down enclosed lanes, through fields of nodding purple grasses.

Environment

From wood to water

Yesterday, cycling down a section of Woodwater Lane, I noticed a corn cockle in the bank. It struck me that I have cycled down the lane many a time, walked down it occasionally, picked blackberries at that time of year, but I have never really paid attention to it.

Making

“Particulart: Up in the Air” opens on 11 July!

Buy a coffee and cake from the Glorious café on the ground floor, and wander up to the second floor gallery for 3D knitted molecules floating in the Earth’s atmosphere!

Place

A lane of two halves: one year on

Last year, I did the first half of a walk down the 1800s route of Woodwater Lane. I managed the western half as far as the Retail Park, before giving up due to the rain. Exactly one year later, I completed the journey.

Play

"Particulart: Up in the Air" pop-up at Exeter Green Fair

Exeter Green Fair on 5 September saw the debut of my new "Up in the Air" pop-up. Under a blue gazebo (the sky), I suspended eight pale blue hula hoops (clouds), and from these the eight greenhouse gases.

Public Engagement

"Particulart: Up in the Air" pop-up at Exeter Green Fair

Exeter Green Fair on 5 September saw the debut of my new "Up in the Air" pop-up. Under a blue gazebo (the sky), I suspended eight pale blue hula hoops (clouds), and from these the eight greenhouse gases.

Science and Data

“Little colouring books” in the “Kuuki" exhibition

“Kuuki : the things we take for granted, but cannot live without” is a response to climate change and other environmental concerns, and a statement on the desperate need for social change.

Social Justice

Maslow's hierarchy

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is 70 years old. Here's my version reflecting the hierarchy in the UK and US.