This page is where I park my travels and thoughts. Subscribe at the bottom of the page for updates!
-
People we saw in Nightclubs
A new project over the last few weeks has been drawing on my experience working in pubs and clubs as a student in Newcastle. Playing around with watercolour this is a series of portraits from memory of the people who enjoyed the nightlife of Newcastle in the early 90s! All of these are for sale…
-
Ventimiglia/Nice 2026
More to follow, but a selection of sketches from my trip to France and Italy in July 2026.
-
Spain Day 4- Madrid……!
Trying to keep up the gym routine while travelling can, at times, feel less like a noble pursuit of physical excellence and more like a particularly cruel Symbolist metaphor….man versus mattress, with the mattress usually winning. Ordinarily, it’s my thing: rise at some ungodly hour, shuffle heroically towards the weights, lift heavy objects with exaggerated seriousness,…
-
Spain Day 3- Madrid to Toledo
Today began with what I considered a tactical triumph worthy of a minor Spanish conquest: I remembered to change the alarm from 6:00 a.m. to 7:15 a.m., thereby avoiding waking the entire hotel with the standard Apple chime, that modern bugle call of the sleep-deprived traveller. I was heading once again down to Atocha station…
-
Spain Day 2- Madrid to Aranjuez
I’ve got to wrestle the alarm on my phone into submission like a particularly stubborn toro. Once again, at 0600, it charged out blaring some tragic, generic Apple tune, as subtle as a matador with a megaphone, waking half the plaza around me. I had noble, strongman intentions of hitting the gym at dawn, having…
-
Spain Day 1- Bristol to Madrid
In the spirit of having some time off and making good use of it a couple of days ago I decided to get out there again and travel some more. This time, it’s a little different as a new job is on the horizon, so all the sensible life-admin has already been dealt with. The…
Subscribe
Enter your email below to receive updates.