Author: Christian

Kelham Island

Kelham Island

Reading Time: 2 minutes We stopped off for a quick wander round Kelham Island on the way back from Derbyshire. This is somewhere I have wanted to have a look round for some time, and certainly want to go back and spend a bit more time in. I am 

Sketching

Sketching

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick addition to the post from our weekend in Tideswell. While there I did a few pencil sketches inspired by the scenery. This is something I am only just starting to play about with, but here they are.

Tideswell

Tideswell

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is actually quite a rare thing, we have actually managed to get away a couple of times this year, this time for a 50th brithday weekend, staying in a bunkhouse in Derbyshire. I love the Derbyshire Peaks. It’s somwhere I don’t get to go 

Tryptych -Fear, Love, Remorse

Tryptych -Fear, Love, Remorse

Reading Time: < 1 minutes While I am busy scanning and archiving, I will upload these for the record. Fear, Love, Remorse. Acrylic and Blood on Canvas, 20x20cm each panel. I will leave it at that.

Watercolour Sketches

Watercolour Sketches

Reading Time: 2 minutes Typically, after 2 weeks of leave full of rain and general rubbish weather, the sun decided to shine on the last day before I go back to work. I decided to sit on the doorstep and do a bit of painting. These are all quick 

Kippford and Rockcliffe in watercolour

Kippford and Rockcliffe in watercolour

Reading Time: 2 minutes After coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to 

Kippford and Rockcliffe

Kippford and Rockcliffe

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s rarer at the moment that I have been able to get out to intereting places and have some time to actually focus on photography recently, but I recently got the chance on a flying visit (for family affairs) to Kippford in Kirkcudbrightshire. This is 

Diesel Gala 2023

Diesel Gala 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s no secret that my train geekery, particularly classic UK diesels comes out fairly often (hey, I am a bona fide ferroequinologist, don’t ya know), and I am very lucky to have the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway so close. It’s also a good ting 

Nostalgia of Pastels

Nostalgia of Pastels

Reading Time: 6 minutes I bought this little set of watercolours from The Range which I visted when chasing Freightliners recently, as I was taken in by the interesting and slightly different colours. It’s a bit of a niche set, and certainly not useful as the only set one 

Freightliners and Balm Road Branch

Freightliners and Balm Road Branch

Reading Time: 2 minutes l have been meaning to go and have a look at the Midland Road Depot for a while, but it has always seemed a bit out of the way for a special trip (Laziness, I know). But when my son had a Rugby day in 

Last Night [Requiem Ensanglanté Demo]

Last Night [Requiem Ensanglanté Demo]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last night was first a 15-minute wait in the pissing rain… For a 3-mile journey on a number 19 bus… To a party in a house nobody knew… And probably shouldn’t go to anyway… …The bible in my pocket and a bottle in my hand… 

York University

York University

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ever since attending an interview for York many years ago (which due to the presence of a friend studying there became a somewhat extended drinking break) I have very much liked the campus at York, due to the well known Brutalist influenced architecture.