A few days out of the studio led me to think about the difference between trees and birds , given that all my work lately has been centred around the garden space and exploring notions of property and commons, it's past time that the inhabitants should be asserting their influence. I've been reading two books in particular alongside this process, Daniel Eltringham's 'Poetry and Commons'

and Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley's 'Edgelands'. The latter is a difficult read because of the 'poetic' writing style and the former a difficult read because of the academic writing style. This particular poetic writing tells you what you should be feeling about the text and the academic spends a lot of time telling you what is going to be discussed later.

Two Trees sketchbook 2016

Pigeons

Geese in Flight

Geese

Gulls

Three Rooks

Gull in Flight

Jackdaw

Pigeons

Pigeons

Loud Baby

Dark Crows