The Drama Club

NB - sorry, have deleted this one.

2009, 2010, 2011 Paintings

Paintings from Summer 2009 onwards that I never downloaded off my phone until tonight. Will probably update eventually with photos as and when bluetoothed. Real goal is to clear up space on my phone to take images for a project here on the blog.


2012 June, Stag and Hare (photography)



2012 June Stagtree (pewter casting)



2012 June, Holy Ground


2011 August, Burst for Ali


2011 July, Anteater


2007/2011 Autumn, St. Penelope Pongo


2011 Autumn, Enter the Magician (Deus Ex Machina)


2010 Autumn, My PhD


2010 July, Cherries


2009 June, The Man Who Wasn't There

(Images from Ape Emotions and Intelligence by N. Ladygin-Kohts, 1935)



"Moments of learning are moments of joy."

- The Redstone Book of the Eye


There is a Quaker phrase I really love in terms of imagery (amongst many others such as holding people in the light, and the idea of divine being in everyone - all so simple and perhaps easily dismissed if you hear them too often, and yet very piercing and beautiful when you consider such phraseology more deeply), and that is the idea of a Meeting for Learning. I can still remember the exact moment when I learned things that shifted paradigms for me - the exact moment when everything shifted when I learned to read music at 10; when I was told that plants were male and female at 7; when I learned to properly read at 6, when I first read about "pre-men" and evolution in an educational graphic novel at 9; when I realised sexuality was along a spectrum and not binarised at 22 - and later too, recently, discovering that even within pain there is learning. There is joy in that. My experience so far is that Life's greatest joys come through surprise - not when things turn out the way I have expected them to, but when they haven't.

This is such a justification for equality and educational parity on sociopolitical scales, because without safety and access, there can be little time left for such costless joy. Free joy.