Saints, Bones and Body Parts

This image does not come from Cumbria, it comes from Norfolk and is in the grounds of Gressenhall Workhouse, not too far from the location of the paupers’ unmarked graves in the apple orchard there. The Resting Place of the Disappeared   I have been studying the lives of the saints this week whilst at the mill in Cumbria  and …

The Lady Trinity

Been troubled by these three this week.  They are part of a commemorative window in the church at Beetham, Cumbria, (the village near the mill where I am resident artist).  The church is now named St Michael’s and All Angels,  but the church might have taken any one of these women’s names had history telling been different following the conqueror’s 11th …

The Three Ladies of Beetham and making some connections

I have an interesting relationship with the West Country. I would love to live there some day. But, more importantly, it’s where I escape to whenever I need a bit of space. It’s where Sandra Reeve, the movement practitioner is based and it’s where I have brought into fruition Little Blue Man as a walking performance. I have been working …