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.

Writer

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

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

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.

Published Writing

"Primary Feathers"

My bit of suburbia is used by local schools for cycle training. I love it!

Posted Writing

We do not know

When we judge, what do we really know of context, motivation or relationships... or how we would respond when faced with a similar situation?

Grace

We do not know

When we judge, what do we really know of context, motivation or relationships... or how we would respond when faced with a similar situation?

Exhibition/Installation

"Let's do something nice today" for "Get On Board 50"

Something nice happened today: "Get On Board 50" went up at Studio 36.

Performance/Event

Uncut Poets, March 2026

I chose to interweave poems about family and science for my open mic, including "QED", on the subject of buying presents for my dad.

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.

Talk/Workshop/Teaching

Slow Book Group: A Lectio Divina approach to Poetry

Some notes on running a slow reading group reflecting at depth each month on a poem that speaks to contemplative prayer and deepening our relationship with the Divine. We drew from an anthology compiled specially for the group.

Papers & Abstracts

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.

News

My first postbag!

The Church Times recently published a short piece I wrote about uses for the paper and its packaging...

Random Work Generator

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

Attentiveness

15 minutes of flame

This week I've been doing a tiny bit of press for Prayerdle

Environment

Published Reports – Economics

Reports written as a consultant at Cambridge Econometrics during 1995-2000, that were subsequently published. Variously on modelling the Chinese economy, the UK electricity supply industry, renewables and energy efficiency, and meeting climate targets.

Justice

An appeal to inner values

Clare Bryden. An appeal to inner values. Church Times, 30 August 2013.
Good causes will get further by emphasising their intrinsic worth rather than external rewards, argues Clare Bryden.

Making

Lecture - "Particulart, or the art of knitting, chemistry, meditation and gentle protest"

Last night, at somewhat short notice, I stepped into a breach and gave a St Michael’s Lecture. I liked the title so much, I adopted it for the work.

Place

Heavitree quarries

When did the Heavitree quarries stop being worked? The old maps provide some evidence.

Play

"Minecraft Climate Quest" at the ExIST STEAMM Show

This was an opportunity for me to pilot my latest work, with some interesting outcomes and lessons!!

Public Engagement

"Particulart: Ozone Day"

Released on Ozone Day 2015, knitted representations of the three main stratospheric ozone depletion equations: the breakdown of CFC-11 in sunlight releasing a chlorine atom, and the cycle of ozone destruction catalysed by this chlorine.

Science and Data

"Freefall Climate Graffiti" at Exeter Phoenix

The visible results of Freefall Climate Graffiti at the Exeter Phoenix will be ephemeral. Have a drink in the café outside seating area, and ponder the graffiti climate maps of the UK, before they're painted over. Help yourself from, and add to, the woolly wall. Pick up a booklet about the project from the Phoenix box office. Repainting Exeter Phoenix’s graffiti wall with UK Climate Projections, with Miss*C and the Freefall Youth Group.