Always a place I love to visit, British Landscapes: A Sense of Place at Pallant House Gallery brings together work by artists who regard landscape in a variety of ways, but always as more than mere scenery. In this article I explore several artists with whom I feel a particular connection through my own experience of landscape, making art, and being in the world. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Landscape as presence Paul Nash Paul Nash, Avebury - Landscape of the Megaliths

Depth psychotherapy explores the deeper and often unconscious dimensions of experience. This article considers how it works, what sessions may involve, and who might be drawn to this reflective approach.

Boleskine is a place steeped in local history, as well as more widely known and mysterious associations with the rich tapestry of occultism in Britain during the late 19th and 20th century.

Art can become inseparable from identity, vocation, and the shape of a life. This article explores psychotherapy for artists navigating blocks, exposure, recognition, livelihood, and change.

The Black Sun has belonged to a deeper current in my life and artwork for many years. Taking Stanton Marlan’s The Black Sun as a point of departure, this essay explores alchemy, lumen naturae, darkness, imagination and the changing presence of these ideas within my landscape paintings.

Following Paul Holman’s strange and elusive Sussex Coils & Loops into folklore, ritual, hidden presences and the personal meanings that gather around particular places.

One of the book's most compelling themes is that meaning cannot simply be adopted from someone else's life. Advice, traditions, and beliefs may all be valuable, but eventually each of us must discover what genuinely carries significance within our own experience.

Finding the right therapist involves more than choosing a particular approach or finding someone with similar experiences. This guide explores qualifications, trust, practical compatibility, initial consultations, and how a therapeutic relationship may develop.

Why might making an image have a place in psychotherapy? This article explores images as forms of psychological life, their ancient human history, and their role within therapeutic work.

Introduction In late March I took an impromptu trip to Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. My first experience of this special place came a few years ago when travelling from Swindon to Devizes to see an Eric Ravilious exhibition. This was a new land to me, and I had no real knowledge of the locality. So when the trundling bus, making its way down a small B road, was suddenly in between huge standing stones only a few feet away, I was taken aback and fascinated by thi

Art Psychotherapy brings conversation and image-making together, but using art in sessions with me is always optional. This article explores what happens during a session, how images are approached, and why no artistic skill is required.

What does it mean to play in psychotherapy? And what does it mean to become, especially in adolescence? Two books that have shaped my clinical thinking in profound ways are D.W. Winnicott’s Playing and Reality and Richard Frankel’s The Adolescent Psyche. Though written in different contexts, both works invite us to reconsider how we understand psychological growth, creativity, and transformation. At their heart is a shared concern with something alive in the psyche: the space

I'm delighted to have this artwork on the RSA walls at the start of this year. One of my personal favourites from the past couple of years. Tap the poster to visit the SSA website. Image size: 73 x 50 cm Framed size: 85 x 62 x 3 cm (approx) 2024 This piece was sold at the exhibition, and I have other work of this style available in my website shop. The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition showcases a range of work from its membership and also non-members, you will f

Ithell Colquhoun’s work stands at the crossroads of art, magic, and social reform. Rooted in landscape, myth, and the living intelligence of matter, her paintings and writings speak powerfully to contemporary longings for depth, enchantment, and ecological relationship.

Fifty years after James Hillman published Re Visioning Psychology, his work remains vivid, challenging, and creatively alive. This article explores Hillman’s life, ideas, and contributions to archetypal psychology, with reflections on image, soul, dreams, imagination, and the deep ecological and cultural themes that shaped his vision.

Beginning therapy can bring uncertainty alongside hope, curiosity, or apprehension. This article considers familiar concerns such as not knowing what to say, fearing judgement, and wondering what therapy may offer.

A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.

Different landscapes in our sense of the world also speak to us differently, and here it serves us to consider the aspect of ‘North’ in Phillips’s work. Made on and of the chalklands of England’s South Downs, then nurtured and moulded in art school in South Wales (where his dissertation for his degree in Fine Art provides us with another clue - ‘Remedy in the Affliction: Beginning with the Wound’) the intervening years have slowly led the artist Northwards.

What struck me most during the workshop, and what I have since revisited in reading his work, is Romanyshyn’s ability to remain faithful to both scholarship and soul. He does not reduce myth to symbol, or psychology to a set of tools or techniques. Instead, he invites us into a relationship with psyche, with image, with story.

Can a meaningful therapeutic relationship develop through a screen? This article explores psychological depth, privacy, presence, and the experience of attending psychotherapy from home.