Category: Identity

  • Poetic Philosophy Science

    Poetic Philosophy Science

    If all the sub-atomic particles in my fingernail grew to the size of a small orange how big would my fingernail be? If every molecule of water in a full bath grew to the size of a drop of water how many baths would it take to hold them all? If you could read the […]

  • Dolur – Sorrow, done

    Dolur – Sorrow, done

    Two paintings, identical sized canvas, almost identical images.   Related Posts:SorrowPodcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow

  • Sam – New Painting

    Sam – New Painting

    Related Posts:Mosaic #81022 New Painting

  • Old Pals

    Old Pals

    Old Pals: Acrylic on Canvas 51cm x 40cm – 20″ x 16″

  • Opening Chapter Dec 2001

    Opening Chapter Dec 2001

    This is something I wrote in 2001, that’s nearly twenty-one years ago as I write this. It’s either genius or a piece of shit. I suppose it could even be both. You decide! (or not, I don’t care)

  • A lazy writer?

    A lazy writer?

    What it is see, is that I’m a lazy writer. No, it’s true, I know that I could work much harder and craft every sentence, every paragraph, every chapter, every verse, every simile or metaphor into something that is entirely professional and rock solid. No, I could, I really could do it – every time. […]

  • A deliberate poem – Brown Black Birds

    A deliberate poem – Brown Black Birds

    I wrote this poem yesterday while sitting in my car in a car park in Cardiff. It took around 15 minutes to write and another 2 minutes to record after reading it through. The original text was not edited and neither was the recording, but I was tempted. Sometimes the raw unedited material has something […]

  • Table 9

    Table 9

    19:15-Chapter TABLE 9 It’s kinda tucked away at the side of the Café-Bar near the entrance to the Art Gallery Table 9 A place to look to assess to judge and comment There’s a woman with her daughter slurping on soup and munching on salad and drinking diet cola A family with two parental figures […]

  • It’s a compromise

    It’s a compromise

  • a few recent paintings

    a few recent paintings

    here’s a few recent paintings. there’s about 50 altogether, mostly 12″ x 10″ – 30cm x 25cm – acrylic on canvas, some larger acrylic on paper. Most painted on the coffee table in the evenings over the last few months. some may be for sale, contact me if interested Related Posts:Three new paintings

  • This is Petal

    This is Petal

    Anyway, here’s Petal.

  • Skin and Bones – New Novel available now

    Skin and Bones – New Novel available now

    Skin is a taxi driver, Bones is a Detective Inspector. They hate each other but both operate on the same patch, the large ex-industrial town of Elchurch on the South Coast of Wales. A young woman is found dead and they are both drawn into the investigation. But all is not what it seems as […]

  • Skin and Bones – new novel coming soon

    My new novel Skin and Bones will be published soon. It is in the final stages of proofreading. Skin is a taxi driver and his brother Bones is a police detective. They do not get on but since they both operate in the large post-industrial town of Elchurch on the South Wales coast they often […]

  • Coming Out of Lockdown

    Coming Out of Lockdown

    Oil on canvas 15/6/2020 – 60cm x 50cm / 24″ x 20″ Painted between April and June 2020 during the Covid lockdown. On display in The Wholefood Shop Cardiff  and for sale at the right price. The painting was started as a pure abstract, in the sense that there was a blank canvas, a random […]

  • The Flying Boy

    I recently completed writing a new novel. The title of the book is ‘Skin and Bones’ . More news on that soon, but in the meantime here is an update on a major work-in-progress. It’s a book with the working title of ‘The Flying Boy’. The title refers to a recurring dream I used to […]

  • Ramble – Podcast

    Ramble – Podcast

    Related Posts:Podcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow

  • New Face – Pedro

  • The Creature – a short video about an upcoming play

    This is a short video I made to help promote the upcoming play from Company of Sirens at Chapter Arts in Cardiff Related Posts:Lottery – A short Story

  • It’s a collage

    It’s a collage

    It’s a collage, that’s what it is, it’s a coll-fucking-age

  • writer or painter?

    if I don’t paint I can’t write, in fact if I don’t paint I lose the plot . . . it takes a while, months, sometimes longer, but here it comes again . . . sorry, got to go and paint . . . if anything decent comes out of my forthcoming painting session I’ll […]