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.

News

Almost one year...

...since the beginning of Lockdown 1

Blog

Seeing and believing and living

Another in my very irregular series of 'were I to have preached'... Thomas was not the first, nor the last.

Talk/Workshop

Slow Book Group: The Cloud of Unknowing

Some notes on running a group reading The Cloud together. Through it, we hoped to gain a deeper understanding of prayer and through that to deepen our own prayer lives and relationships with God.

Article

What can I do about the Climate Emergency? Part 9

One of a series of articles for Exeter Cathedral’s monthly news. It's the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, and I'm looking at the emotive issue of food.

Exhibition/Installation

Experimenting for "Moths to a Flame"

The amazingly creative Chloe Uden from Art and Energy has made oak gall ink, so I attempted watercolour for the first time, and a Great Oak Beauty moth.

Academia

Working title: “The application of weather forecasting techniques to health forecasting”

In a past working life I conducted a thought experiment, looking at the different aspects of numerical weather prediction and weather forecasting at the Met Office, and asking whether these techniques might have an analogue in health forecasting. At the time, I thought there might be a paper in it. It never came to be written, so this is how I am keeping the idea alive.

Performance/Event

#DIYLent #poetry #light #prayer

In this year of quarantine, I have been observing a DIY Lent. I thought it would be wonderful to get together (via Zoom of course) with one or two different friends each week. Both of us bring a poem, or piece of poetic prose, or art, or music to share and reflect on.

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.

Random Work Generator

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

Attentiveness

"Listening to Silent Spring" at Mikrofest

Mikrofest was a free mini festival to launch Kaleider’s new home. I took the opportunity to trial an installation of "Listening to Silent Spring" in a couple of bird boxes in the building.

Environment

"Ghost Bees" at Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape

This summer, if you happen to be wandering along the Teignmouth sea-front, you will happen across twelve "Ghost Bees" hovering in the flower bed between Pavilions and Pier.

Making

"Ghost Bees" in the "Dark Art" exhibition

Five of the eight "Ghost Bees" I knitted for TRAIL and three of Cleo's four remained at the end of the summer. My five are currently appearing in a gem of an exhibition at the Barnfield Theatre.

Place

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.

Play

Olympic mythogeography

I've always had a problem with buses. Mythogeography tells me to get on a random bus, and see where it takes me for a set number of stops. But I'm able to end up here there and everywhere, even when I'm just trying to get home.

Public Engagement

Roll up! Roll up to the Art Vending Machine!

The Art Vending Machine is a fun installation that sells playing card-sized art to the regular punter. "Green|Blue: Drop Slow Tears", the mini mirror tears, are one of eleven different multiples during the 2017/18 season.

Science and Data

"Particulart: Up in the Air" pop-up at Greenbelt

I was at the Greenbelt Festival over the August bank holiday. As part of a fantastic weekend, I gave a Pecha Kucha talk about my art work, and "Particulart: Up in the Air" popped up in the Allotment Gallery.

Social Justice

Inside and outside the Cathedral

What it means to be the people of God, and the Occupy camp on Exeter Cathedral Green.