A Visit to Charleston
I love wandering around historic houses and Charleston, near Lewes in East Sussex, is a particularly delightful place to visit, being the...
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Sea Changes
I consider the sea off Worthing as my little bit of the English Channel. Sometimes it's a clear and beautiful aqua-green colour,...
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Jacobean Extravaganza
Surprising, magical and spectacular are the best words to use when describing the Collector Earl’s Garden at Arundel Castle. As a Sussex...
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Sargent & Fashion
This exhibition at Tate Britain explores the importance of costume in John Singer Sargent’s portraits of members of high society in the...
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A Search for Freedom
I recently visited the marvellous Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to see the retrospective exhibition of John Craxton, called A...
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Memories of London
I left my home town to study for a degree in Art History at Middlesex University, at the Trent Park campus just north of High Barnet....
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Winter in Wales
In December 2009 I spent some time in Talywern in Mid Wales. The journey from London was long, with multiple changes of trains, and I got...
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Movie Lovers
I spent a lot of my youth watching old movies on TV. I was mad about Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Montgomery Clift. I...
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Wood Grain
Timber groynes are designed to control the movement of sand and pebbles paralell to the shore line by wave action, known as longshore...
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Sedgwick Park
The Grade II listed mansion at Sedgwick Park in Nuthurst near Horsham dates from the seventeenth century and it's surrounded by glorious...
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Memories of Mid Wales
I fell in love with a place call Talywern, a hillside hamlet six miles east of the market town of Machynlleth in the county of Powys, Mid...
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Rusty
Rust is an iron oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of moisture. Given sufficient time, any iron mass in the...
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Art Around the Town
Having recently discovered First & Last (a shop selling gorgeous things) I went there for the private view of Tidal Paintings by Trevor...
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Graffiti
NEVER SETTLE. FIND LOVE THAT IS WILD, SETS YOUR SOUL ON FIRE, A LOVE LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE EVER FELT BEFORE. AND WHEN YOU DO, BE BRAVE....
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Tide Sculptures
Mass-produced utilitarian timber groynes constructed for sea defence on Worthing beaches have been transformed into a variety of...
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History in the Streets
There's a lot to be dismayed about when you look at Worthing these days but if you explore, you can discover some fascinating things that...
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The Importance of Being in Worthing
The beach smells of rotting seaweed and dead fish. Flies buzz. A crow picks over the pebbles, looking for rubbish to eat. The amusement...
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Flower Power
I love visiting gardens and there are some places not too far from Worthing where you can enjoy amazing examples of garden design,...
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