Behind The Photograph: The Absent Oak Leaf
What might be considered an imperfection is, to my eye, the most beautiful part of the line. Its absence carries more presence than the unbroken stretches on either side.
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Walking Offa's Dyke - Hay-on-Wye to Llangollen
Follow my walk from Hay-on-Wye to Llangollen through the borderlands of England and Wales - a landscape between two worlds. Along the way, I’ll share photographs, field notes, my watercolours and my take on the places I encounter.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: The Treasure Hoard Edition
Encounter by encounter - place by place - these things helped me rediscover a sense of wonder.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Parvis Room, St. Laurence, Ludlow
As I walk around the space I can sense how the room would have looked several hundred years ago. Our modern selves would paint within boundaries, negate the windows and ceiling, but here, every surface is covered in render and paint.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Mills of the Cheesden Valley
I don’t want you to be put off by the industrial tag associated with the chimney and the other remnants that survive here. They have given rise to a secluded and singular landscape that makes the soul sing.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Castle in the Lake at Loch an Eilein
It was at that instant that the sharp easterly dropped and beyond the forest of Rothiemurchus, the snow bones of Creag Dhubh tousled the clouds into thin wisps of galloping guilloche.
✨ Treasure Hoard: The Kissing Squeeze Stile at Middleham
Two monoliths lean towards one another, their great positive masses made meaningful by the sliver of negative space between. Pass through and the body completes the design.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Nelson Footwear, Settle
I lift the bag from its hook and – as if from nowhere – the shopkeeper appears.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Holy Air Encased in Stone at Repton
The columns themselves are remarkable – spiralled, as if frozen mid-turn, glowing faintly in the half-light.
