Jan 25, 2021 | Architecture, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage, Wedgwood Institute
Sometimes titles for blog posts just pop into my head. This was one of them. It was something that Dad would say – that things ‘ticked by’. Here we are in a new year, and already into the last week of January 2021. Looking at these terracotta panels...
Sep 29, 2020 | Architecture, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage, Listed buildings, Wedgwood Institute
Looking up at the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem Have you ever looked up at a building and marvelled at the creativity that has gone into it? Have you thought about the artists and makers and the hours of planning and co-ordination spent to pull something like the...
May 7, 2020 | Architecture, Lanark Heritage, pencil drawing
Calling all Lanark artists! Lanark Tolbooth Trust and Lanark Community Development Trust have put their heads together and come up with a great idea for artists living within 7 miles of Lanark, by holding a rainbow themed art competition. YMCA, St Nicholas Church,...
Aug 26, 2017 | Architecture, Sketching, Whitmore heritage
I live a few hundred metres from the site of Whitmore’s old railway station booking office. The station itself closed in 1952. On first sight there’s nothing more remarkable than a blue plaque on a building with boarded up windows. Whitmore Railway Station...
May 2, 2017 | Architecture, Sketching, Uncategorized, urban sketching
On the top floor of the brand new Fiona Stanley hospital in Perth, there’s a dedicated visitors’ room complete with all you need to help yourself to a brew or chilled water thanks to donations from the Australian #DryJuly. A perfect refuge for me who had...
Feb 17, 2017 | Architecture, Uncategorized, Victorian Terracotta Tiles
I’ve been keeping my eyes out for terracotta tiles which jazz up the fronts of late Victorian buildings and have begun to sketch and record them – their patterns and dates if provided. I had a hunch that they might give me a means to map connections with...
