Category Archives: Trees

In Epping Forest

Posted on May 14, 2013 by hamer the framer

On May Day, a public holiday given over to celebrations of fertility we went looking for maypoles and morris dancers. We went out to Epping Forest and parked by Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge. Straightaway, even before leaving the car, there … Read more…

Holloway Again

Posted on May 1, 2013 by hamer the framer

Holloway is published this month by Faber & Faber. Caught By The River are hosting a launch party at Rough Trade East on May 14th. Its original publication last year inspired this earlier post, Holloway.

Jerwood Open Forest

Posted on May 1, 2013 by hamer the framer

We just received a call for entries for Jerwood Open Forest, an opportunity for artists to submit proposals that explore the potential of forests as sites for art. The closing date is 28 May. More details from Jerwood Open Forest.

Beckett At Sixty

Posted on April 10, 2013 by hamer the framer

Samuel Beckett rehearsing Endgame and ‘having an idea’ with the San Quentin Drama Workshop at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in 1980. I worked there intermittently in those days, even had a small exhibition of my paintings there, and the house … Read more…

Five French Gardens

Posted on April 6, 2013 by hamer the framer

I was looking at Greg Becker’s Pinterest page, The Wild Allotment, a lovely collection of green-fingered imagery and a great escape from our endless winter. It got me thinking about visits to other, slightly more manicured gardens, but most importantly … Read more…

Epping Snow

Posted on January 29, 2013 by hamer the framer

All this talk of winter trees and William Morris and I realise it’s time I went back to Epping Forest. It seems different every time I visit but today is something special, I’ve never seen it so thick with snow. … Read more…

Bewick’s Nature Print

Posted on January 21, 2013 by hamer the framer

The Hedge Warbler or Dunnock Printed from the boxwood block engraved by Thomas Bewick for his History of British Birds, 1797

From Powdermills To Wistman’s Wood

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Tim Cumming

Here is an extract from a prose work in progress about family life in summer on Powdermills Farm in the 1960s and 1970s. My father, then head of art at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art, had hired a cottage … Read more…

Christmas

Posted on December 27, 2012 by hamer the framer

Christmas by Christopher Corr, courtesy of The Nightingale Project.

O Tannenbaum

Posted on December 25, 2012 by hamer the framer

DJ Zufall – O Tannenbaum