Transcapes

I grew up at Apperley Dene, near Stocksfield in Northumberland, where Roman Dere Street cuts across the old eighteenth‑century Lead Road. For two millennia people have passed this way—soldiers, drovers, miners, travellers—each leaving something of themselves behind.
If you pause, look closely, and listen, those layers of lived time begin to rise to the surface. The land remembers.
Everything is transient… yet nothing is ever truly gone.

I began the first Transcapes work in 1981, and it has remained an ongoing personal project ever since—

spanning painting, photography, collage, and poetry (a few examples are shown below).

The Transcapes poetry anthology was published in 2017.