Sorrow

Acrylic on box canvas – 70cm x 100cm/28″ x 40″

There’s a little story behind this painting. When I write it up I’ll paste it below. For now I’m happy to have finished it, it’s taken months on and off.

Podcast, September 10th 2022 - Sorrow

Everything Changes

A link to my songs on Bandcamp that I wrote some time ago and recorded last year along with Dafydd as Mwgwd

https://mwgwd.bandcamp.com/

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)

Continue reading “Opening Chapter Dec 2001”

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

Candigirl – acrylic portrait

here’s Candigirl

and here’s Candigirl in a frame

Nikki - Portrait of a character

It’s a collage

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

some poetry work-in-progress – podcast

about Busted and Crime and Coffee etc.mp3

just another rambling podcast partly about the book launch of Busted the other day

Morning

Just found this in an old word doc from February 2000

Morning

Continue reading “Morning”

2 Old Heads at The Apothecary Cardiff

I don’t really know how it got to this but in eleven days time on April 3rd I am doing a sort of gig. Poster below.

It’s a very small venue but an interesting one.

here’s the event link on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/317730898881281/

Some of my paintings will be on display and for sale in the week leading up to the event.

Here they are:

Mozaic-B – Acrylic on canvas. 16″ x 12″ Framed and ready to hang £160

Mozaic-A – Acrylic on canvas. 16″ x 12″ Framed and ready to hang £160

Oranges and Lemons – Acrylic on canvas. 16″ x 12″ Framed and ready to hang £150

Earth and Sky – Acrylic on canvas. 16″ x 12″ Framed and ready to hang £120

Also on show but not for sale (high offers may be considered)

Cefncaeau View – Oils on canvas. 30″ x 24″

Okey Dokey

Don’t ask . . . . . .

Here’s some sort-of abstract works instead

Earth and Sky – Acrylic. 16″ x 12″ Framed and ready to hang £275

Space SOS: Acrylic on canvas – 24″ x 20″

Parallel Universe Two: Acrylic on Canvas. 12″ x 10″ (30cm x 25cm)

Abstract Landscape #2 – Oil on Canvas 80cmx60cm – Price: TBA

Wavy Abstract – – Oil on Canvas 80cm x 60cm – Price: TBA

“Big Stripey” acrylic on canvas – 66cm x 51cm (26″ x 20″)

Here (finished) – Acrylic on Canvas 60cm x 50cm

Here and Now (finished) Acrylic on Canvas 60cm x 50cm

Tân Gwyllt Ebrill: 80x60cm – oil on canvas

Tân Gwyllt I: Oil on Canvas 60xm x 50cm approx

Tân Gwyllt II: Oil on Canvas 60xm x 50cm approx

Tân Gwyllt III: Oil on Canvas 60xm x 50cm approx

Tân Gwyllt IV: Oil on Canvas 60xm x 50cm approx

Autumn Show – Acrylic on heavy box canvas – 1200mm x 1000mm

Illustration from The Dreamer – a short story

Orange Mess abstract painting — Orange Mess

Bent String - abstract painting — Bent String

Marking an event

Last Saturday, December 8th 2018, along with Dafydd Wyn Roberts, I held an event at the Apothecary in Cardiff. They have a lovely little caff at the back of their shop.

Dafydd played 4 songs accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar, and I read three excerpts from my novels.

It went like this – Song-Reading-Song-Reading-Song-Reading-Song or something like that.

Before, during, and at the end of the song-reading cycle we chatted to each other and to the audience.

It was a great night and everyone who was there loved it. Dafydd’s act was excellent, good songs well sung and played. We may do it again – watch this space (well not this space, but some other space)

here’s the poster for the event again

Whodunnit?

Whodunnit? You just might find out over the next two days.

Tomorrow and Saturday, June 1st & 2nd, Cardiff Central Library is the location for the Crime and Coffee festival, a very special gathering to celebrate Crime Writing.

Meet some award winning crime writers and find out what makes them tick, how they approach their work and where they get their inspiration from.

Full details here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cdfcrimefest

I am very pleased that I will be appearing at 1pm on Friday as part of a panel discussion with two other local authors Phil Rowlands and Evonne Wareham.

Details of the panel discussion here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FHFHEJ

Come along and discover the gems that this unique collection of talent has to offer

Nobody

Nobody

Nobody nobody nobody

Nobody nobody nobody
nobody nobody nobody

NOBODY

Helo

I can’t do anything better than anecdotal and observational so I might be wrong and I can’t be bothered to do any real research because if I’m right it would be a waste of time since no one would read this anyway.

I mean even if I don’t bother to do any research and this does get read I’m still quids in aren’t I?

I am aware that the chance that anyone who is actually another person and not some automatic bot-type thing that visits random websites in the hope of finding something of value – like a list of email addresses that they can sell to their fellow bots who send emails offering riches galore, is minscule.

So, the point is: no matter how obvious I make it, no matter how honest I am, it won’t matter because no one is going to read it anyway,

Why do I bother to continue writing then?

Because part of me wants to read what another part of me wants to write. Maybe it’s just one part behaving in two different ways? I don’t know, but here it is, my voice in the void.

Is anybody out there?

(Doesn’t really matter so don’t bother responding, even if you are one of the anybodies out there)

Nos Da

(p.s. This is not as self-indulgent as it seems)