Sikh Cyanotype
8th January 2026
almost finished Scratch Moss by David Barnett
It’s one of those mornings, I’m sat here wanting to come home before I’ve even left the house…
Lighter evenings and mornings can’t come soon enough.
↠ Cambridge Thinking Press closed???
↠ add three bookshops to bookshop directory
↠ look into Hamlet’s Hit Points?
☑ add art manifesto to blog
☑ Scratch Moss review
Sikh Cyanotype
This photograph was taken in Middlesbrough in 2012 and had sat around doing nothing like a lot of my photographs, but I thought that it would make a great black and white negative with enough contrast for the cyanotype to work well, and I love it so much it still has pride of place on my pinboard above my workspace.
This is available to buy from my Redbubble Account
Teacher’s pet
Tell us about a teacher that had a real impact on your life, either for the better or worse. How is your life different today because of him or her?
Mrs Lawson.
When we were in primary at the age of eight our class had a terrible reputation and they decided to send in Mrs Lawson…
We had heard things about her from other kids and these were terrifying.
It turned out that the most terrifying thing was that she would actually listen to children in a very positive manner and challenge them in a positive way (I only realise now that she knew young kids got bored and that relieving this boredom can change a lot of behaviour).
She took her time and then put me in charge of the reading box, that box of short story cards that were graded for different reading levels. This involved checking cards in and out for other kids, but the big perk was I could read whatever I wanted from there whenever I wanted and I could even take the cards home.
Revelation!
She then encouraged us all to read and took a trip to the local library and got us all library cards.
I never looked back and a lot of my poor behaviour was moderated.
Loved Mrs Lawson.
Didn’t really get much done today as I was to engrossed with Scratch Moss by David Barnett, wonderful storytelling!
