Rock Family Tree: First in the series of Family Tree; the sea, the rocks, pebbles and sand; woods, metalled/rocky tracks and houses in the trees; houses heel-dug into grassy slopes. Cow dung, barn walls; Campion and blackberries; whipping grasses. Different … Read More

Gods come in many guises and so do places of worship, vessels for the sacrament and what we hold worthy of adoration. School housed more glam and glitter than my weekend high life; priests in their golden threads, popingjays circling … Read More

Daydreaming my way through classes, I feasted my eyes on the saints that were an example to us all. “Die damn you” seemed to the overarching message, “die and really start enjoying yourself”. I asked one of my sisters what … Read More

Here’s a little David Bowie; I’m going to make him into a medal for lifesaving. He survived a Seventies diet of milk and cocaine to become an example of Health and Strength; well done, Mr Bowie. Maybe not Mr Universe … Read More

Here he is, St Peter Chanel of the Staffroom; saving the souls of wayward convent girls and having his head stoved in for unsolicited missioning. How the nuns fluttered when men came a visiting; how they loved a Christian man. … Read More

Seeing as I was sent to a Catholic School when I was seven, these memories have had a while to turn into a visual chronicle. Though for many years I kept a record through poetry and in some ways these … Read More