More Boats
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When Jimmy was sketchy boy
It’s twenty-brine-teen and five months of MORE BOATS has officially begun. I started this year by crawling around in my loft putting Christmas decorations away. Whilst up in that cramped space I found a bunch of my old sketchbooks from my A-level and Foundation courses. Back in A-level we had to use these big A3…
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A vessel with no destination
Here’s another thought taken from my reading of st. Brendan that I feel really speaks to the unspeakable allure of making boats. St. Brendan set off on his voyage somewhere in the 500s, a time when no one knew if anything lay off to the west, beyond the Atlantic. It isn’t that people thought there…
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Sailing to the fictive past.
I’ve been reading The Age of Bede as part of my commitment to reading more books to feed my work. I am particularly interested by the voyage of st. Brendan (anonymous author) a partly historical but mostly fictional account of a sixth century monk’s voyage by boat to search for Eden. I will no doubt…
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Bound for Eden
In my thinking, research and imagine it’s clear in my writing here too- my interest when speaking about connecting to a history of boats is in an ancient and sometimes mythic past. When the water would take you to somewhere you didn’t know and it seemed like the edge of everything. It is in this…
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Behind the Seaside – thinking about Folkestone and it’s water.
I’m planning to make water going vessels, and I live and work in a coastal town. And so the following is some thoughts, ideas and investigation about Folkestone as might pertain to what I’m going to be doing in this project. As will become normal, this post is just a slither, it’s a thread to…
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Reading – December 2018
It occurs to me that during this development period I should attempt to build some good habits, and I am certain that a habit of many successful artists is wide reading. Books have a big influence on my creative work. Heck, in 2018 I published my first novel (also boat related), and the original Title…
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