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.

This year the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics celebrates its 30th anniversary with this edition of Stravaig. I am delighted to have two recent works published in the new edition of their journal Stravaig. There they find themselves in the very good company of artwork, poetry, and essays from members of the Geopoetics community. I joined the organisation following the 2017 conference held on Seil, an island off the west coast of Scotland which is separated from the mainland by

What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. Here are some of the places that drew my attention. The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the peaks and have prominence over the land for many surrounding miles. Shaped by millenia of glacial activity and weathering, some of them app

I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...

Carl Jung’s reflections from Bollingen reveal a psyche that is not confined to the individual but flows through nature, ancestry, and the deep roots of life. This expanded post explores Jung’s vision of the interconnectedness of self, soul, and the living world.

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The first in a series exploring this fascinating and very beautiful area of Wales. Click the image to read...

Expressing the Earth - organised by Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and the University of the Highlands and Islands. The Scottish Centre...