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Sketch a day - Day 233/365 My friend Rachel invited me to an event today supported by a charity called Hope for the Future. They work to get ordinary people and politicians together to talk about climate related issues. It was really good. I got to meet my MP Anna Dixon along with a group of folks from Shipley’s Home Education Network. I got to hear folks talk to Anna about climate change, often…
Sketch 232/365 Last night, after tea I went up to Harden Moor for the first time. Harden Moor is approximately 3.5 miles from where I live. How can you live somewhere for such a longtime and never visit? It feels so ridiculous now. Especially as I go to St Ives about 3 times a week. Like, Harden Moor has been waiting there for me all of this time and I just never looked up long enough to notice.…
Sketch a day - Day 231/365 What happened today? Another day off. 2 In a row. Which is bit of a PB. Of late I have been rubbish at taking time off. Silly. I am feeling the benefit. Note to self. Take time off. Anyway this morning I went for a run at St Ives estate. Saw some trees that are old friends that I haven't said hello to for a while. Saw some cows up close and they are so beautiful. Said…
Sketch a day - Day 230/365 There is something about Pylons within nature that feels very beautiful to me. I don't quite know why. I expect that lots of folks feel that a pylon disfigures a natural scene. But I can't agree. Maybe because I don't see the beauty in pretending things are not as they are. I don't find that comforting. I find it confronting. Airbrushing a situation doesn't make it…
Sketch a day - Day 229/365 What happened today? I went for a run up at St Ives and it was good to see how the rain had softened the edges of the draught. My achilles niggle continues. But here we are. Slowly I am moving in the right direction. I really noticed how many of the trees are moving into autumn already. And the early ripening blackberries. I thought about the ways natutre exists between…
Sketch a day - Day 228/365 So today's blog is a bit of a rehash of a social media post I put out earlier, because it's time for some long promised news: I am super excited because I have been chosen to be one of the Artists in residence at Bradford's Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve. Between now and the end of October I will be writing a play for St Ives And Harden Moor. It will exist as an…
Sketch a day -Day227/365 Today as part of the National National Reserve Artist Residency I am starting (honest to god gov, I AM going to get my shit together and actually put some words out about this great thing I am doing. It's so exciting. I have just been up against it of late) we went to visit artists and scientists in Calderdale who have been working in collaboration. To get inspiration and…
Sketch a day - Day 226/365 It's very hard to make sense of how or why Tucker sleeps in the positions he puts himself into. He gets into such contortions on the sofa. Its fun to try and draw him thou. What else can I tell you about today? Deborah and I had another great meeting. This time with Rachel Campbell, who is gunna be another collaborator on the upcoming Old Bird SideBySide R&D process. It…
Sketch a day - Day 225/365 Deborah and I had a meeting with ace writer/producer Debbie Beeks today. We are going to be working with her during the coming months on the RnD of our new show, Side by Side. It's so exciting to meet new creative brains. That zing and feeling of ‘OH! You see the world in ways that I really get, but also at the same time, you see things differently’. That sense of…
Sketch a day - 224/365 What can I tell you about today? I had a run up at St Ives. I ended up meeting a farmer who told me all about his beautiful sheep dog Peg. A video call with Josh, working on the musical. We made progress but not as much as we both hoped. This is the reality of this project. We focus on what we can do, not what we can't. But sometimes we wish we had more time than we have.…
Sketch a day - Day 223/365 Today we saw our lovely friend Hannah at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It was one of those gorgeous days with a friend, a gentle catch up. Moments of laughing. Moments of grief. Perhaps not even noticed as grief in the moment. But now, later, I recognise that this emotion was there, often. So many of my friends (as I am myself) are reckoning with the realities of this world,…
Sketch a day - Day 222/365 Today has been about diving into the National Nature Reserve Residency I am beginning at St Ives and Harden Moor. I am going to do a more extensive/useful post about this (brilliant commission I have been given. So excited) as soon as I can get my head into everything. But today has just been that overwhelm feeling of - it's all ace but there is so much to do. I will get…
Sketch a day - Day 221/365 There are few things of which I am certain. Here is the list of things I know are true: 1 Capital punishment is always wrong. No matter how awful the crime. No matter how much I or you or we might wish for revenge. This is inconvenient. And no it's not some saintly bullshit stance. I get the urge for revenge. Its just that we know a cruelty isn't made better by another…
Sketch a day -Day 220/365 Today has been about arriving back into our lives, preparing an ADHD assessment form and watching the Solar Eclipse through a pin hole projection onto paper. It made me wonder how people who believe the earth is flat make sense of this phenominum? I askedthe internet. Flat earth folks believe that there is an entity in the sky that can't usually be seen but which passes…
Sketch a day - Day 219/365 Back from France. Only time to do a quick mug sketch today. That's the news Peace is possible. Even if it feels impossible. 🙌🏻🔥🌕🌠🪿🪶🌿🐴🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐾❤️🙏🏻
