Many of you may be experiencing social isolation and the kind of stir crazy boredom that comes from staying home without choice for more than a few days. As ...

Last month was four weekends of Open Studios - and what fun it was! Visitors included a number of professionals - an archaeologist, an anatomist, quite a few...

I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the only baculum) and beh...

Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able to document normal a...

Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of Tutankhamen! Tutankhamen has a...

So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came across a statement of thr...

Tiny, self-indulgent post. Today I heard the result of the Photography Degree assessment. The degree I started as "something to do" whilst too ill to work wi...

Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this before, but this time, ...

After a prompt from a very good friend, I have been persuaded to put a book of my images together and offer it for sale. This way any of you who, like me, lo...

Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography degree and Arts Council ...

Visiting one of only two charnel chapels (or ossuaries) left in the country left a bitter taste in my mouth. Though it was possibly more sour than bitter. O...

Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not just the subject, bu...

Today, not many words are needed, as I just wanted to share my first attempts to bring out the beauty of the variety of skull shapes. It's something that is ...

Modern Day Mourning What is mourning? Is it sadness, loss of appetite, inability to cope or the process of shutting your emotions off? In definition, mournin...