Early morning on Christmas day is probably the only time London is ever truly quiet.
London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, the streets lack the sound of car tyres rolling over tarmac.
Heading home, also a sound you never really hear now – the pealing of church bells. Not just coming from a single church you are nearby, but from all over the city as the sound carries far further than usual and surrounds you from all sides. Magical.
Things are still a bit disrupted, with my PC temporarily set up in my studio, because I'm busy laying floors at the moment in the office. To keep things going here are some examples of older work via Flickr.
These are photographs I took of Pagham Harbour near Chichester. I had hopes of using these images as the source material for some prints - it hasn't happened yet - so I was intrigued to see Tina Mammoser's take on the same location. Her work often looks abstracted even though it is inspired by real places, but this image looks pretty specific to me.
On a different tack, the screen prints I was working on have been abandoned for now. My usual problem of overworking has left them a bit of a cluttered mess. Still, lessons learned and I have high hopes for the restarted piece.
