Iron in the river. 19 02 19One hour after full tide, Wapping Reach, 3 8 17Stormfactory:Stravinsky ‘Three PIeces’ on the desk. 5 2 14Thames. High Tide. East Wind. 12 5 14The river dreams of winter: Causeway 27 12 18
Storm Front 23 11 12The River deals of Winter: Storm Petrels/Angelo Maria Fiorè (Sinfonia) 12 12 18Leaving the storm. Train to Manchester. 15 2 14The River Dreams of Winter: Estuary. 8 12 18Off the Gotland Coast. Storm Building in the west 13 8 14Lost rivers of London: A Day with the Tyburn beneath my feet/Reading Froissart. 26 6 18Stormwatch. Overnight Wapping 26-27 MayFull tide. Heavy Swell, Wind 6mph NNW, High Tide, Late Nantucket & Bon Accord Wharfs. Wapping 6 7 19Canal-River-Fog 12 12 13An astonishing space. Fogou at Carne Eunys, 1 1 15, with MaleneThe bestiary/Amber warning-stormfront 31 05 18Heavy weather. Pen Sans 2 1 14Niagara River at Lewiston, NY. August 2011Heavy weather coming in from the west. Passes quicky. Afternoon Light 2- 3 pm Gulf of FinlandThe River deals of Winter: Storm Petrels/Angelo Maria Fiorè (Sinfonia) 12 12 18Heavy weather coming in from the west. Passes quicky. Afternoon Light 2- 3 pm Gulf of FinlandPutting to sea 21 8 14Thursday night by the river: slow fires of autumn 25 10 18Flood tide, Swan Wharf 5 8 20Berkhampstead-Tring. Misty Morning. Lineside Fire. 10 12 13Conversations, with Nicola LeFanu and Nigel Clarke (Sea of Crises) 2005I fell in love with Fuseli’s work in my teens. Good to spend an hour with his ‘The Fire King’ at the V & A. 2nd July 2012Flood Tide and Harvest Moon 12 9 19Astonishing winter twilight in the woods at Stonegate (with an irritated Mistle Thrush) 17 12 16American Journal: North out of Seattle, Mount Baker off the Starboard bow. 4pm, 15 8 16London Stones: Setts, Streets and Rebellions 3 7 16Full tide. Heavy Swell, Wind 6mph NNW, High Tide, Late Nantucket & Bon Accord Wharfs. Wapping 6 7 19For Laurence Rose. Hilltop Oak/Ironstone. Sandy 16 11 15Afternoon at sea. 11 6 17Ancient Sycamore on the Sandstone Path (In G F Watts’ woods) 23 10 15Motacilla cinerea/Grey Wagtail flight at low tide. 1 4 19River Almond near Perth. Rehearsing under a Old Red Sandstone cliff faceWinter returns VIII. With Childe Harold/Out at sea the dawn wind wrinkles and slides (a memory) January 14thLamorna, Rocks 30 12 14Flood tide at the Old Stairs 11 01 19Granite to Lamorna 4 1 15330pm. NNE from Herne Bay. Ship starting engines, hull down. Contrails for Peter Lanyon. A word about painting/drawing and walking. Whilst I carry a sketch book when I walk, the majority of notes that I take are in incomprehensible shorthand. The images that strike me have nothing to do with the photographs that I take. As I walked down the cliff to the front at Herne Bay, the light was darkening from by left (the South), whilst the sky to the north was still light. For about 15 minutes, the horizon the the north was smudged with a filthy stack of smoke, which seem to be from a vessel hull down (more than 7/8 miles away, seen from sea level). The image crystallized this evening, and the ever-present jet trails over the Thames estuary nudged me towards Peter Lanyon’s work. A hero of mine. 27 10 18Study-East from Wapping to Rotherhithe. High Tide, 6pm. 10 10 18An hour on the beach with tea – clouds rolling in. 18 6 202012 Days: 3. Sioh nu sylfa þe / geond þas sidan gesceaft-the tide moulds the mud in the river Lea12 Days: 5.’engla beorhtast/ofer middengeard’ Malene Sheppard Skaerved’s Kingfisher flashes through the Wapping Canals 28 12 17Leaving Ketchikan-Views of Behm Canal 17 8 16Canal-River-Fog 12 12 13
