Hello friends, I hope you are all coping with the Covid-19 restrictions and that this message finds you well. I have three new works exhibiting online with the Wilderness Art Collective as our summer group show has had to move online due to social distancing. A residency making inks from seaweed in Mull, Scotland, workshops and a residency with the WAC, and many courses and classes I was leading have been postponed. But I will shortly be filming many of my classes with a great young film-maker, and along with online seminars, will be offering distance learning in the not too distant future. Keep an eye on my Instagram for the latest news on that. I also have three specially commissioned pieces in the next Dark Mountain fiction book. Rather than being illustrations, the writer has taken my works as the starting point, and will write outwards from there. This is an approach I have taught at Wild Twins Course over the years. It makes a nice change for the image to be first, before the words.

Unlike most people, I don’t yet run an email newsletter. In the autumn I will start one, so that folks can easily sign up to classes. I don’t like to bother folks, goodness knows how our inboxes are already clogged. But I promise to only make them 4-5 times a year. For now, have a great summer.

‘Stalked’, iron gall ink on handmade buckskin, mounted on board. May 2020.

This was drawn with a moulted goose quill feather pen, the ink was made from local oakgalls, rain water and discarded iron, the buckskin is from waste hides which I transform into parchment, buckskin and leather. The work features in the WAC exhibition and in the next Dark Mountain book.