And so it begins.....

Next spring I will be launching my first exhibition of art infused poetry in Cornwall. This blog is to advertise and update events and above all keep me on track by recording the highs and lows of this enterprize in my posts.

Official Dates of Exhibitions

'The Old Press Gallery' (St Austell)
PREVIEW EVENING - Friday 22nd March 2013 7pm - 9pm

EXHIBITION STARTS - Saturday 23rd-28th March 2013

'Cornish Studies Library' (Redruth)
EXHIBITION STARTS - Tuesday 2nd-6th April 2013



Monday 22 July 2013

Eyes to the skies.....


I must have been wandering lonely as a cloud.... unloaded... puffy-light; now I've fallen back down to home with a thump; surrounded by young expectant faces - the summer holidays are here.

I'm keeping one eye on that vast expanse above, the calm blue density which has blessed us since the beginning of July as Sound of Fable are re-emerging with a concept EP based on Sky and Space. This has been simmering for a while, as far back as Circus of Words, our first album, when a  song 'There is a Moon Calling' was placed in the 'on hold' file till a later date. Other poems and pieces of music have been formed and tinkered with and now it looks like a serious prospect.

Getting back to the array of tonal travellers in the skies, clouds have been quite a talking point recently. I few weeks ago an app was launched to educate on the types of clouds we witness through out the seasonal shifts - http://cloudspotterapp.com/

My interest in clouds started in my teenage years with Peter Reich's 1973 memoir of his Father's radical meteorology experiments, A Book of Dreams that inspired Kate Bush to write Cloud Busting - nothing short of an epically rousing tune from Hounds of Love (1985). Whilst in my first year at college I'd discovered an inspiring book The Invention of Clouds by Richard Hamblyn that explores the little-known scientific studies of the early 19th century defining the cataloguing of clouds. With the wonder, awe, terror and beauty of our skies and beyond still enthralling many writers and artists of today we musical types from Sound of Fable are about to debark on an ethereal journey too....