This is a selection of images from my Musicians, Writers & Philosophers project. Work centering on those who have informed and inspired me.

Beginning with my greatest musical influence, Joni Mitchell.

Joni In Green, 2013

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Memphis Minnie

Bertrand Russell and Eccentricity “Do not fear to be eccentric… every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

Joni In Green

Tom Waits – The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me

Tom Waits in a tree

Whiskey Mick.

Watershed – Tom and Connor.

Dana Immanuel – Scrawl ’13

Bertrand Russell – Love and Caution ’13

John Berger on The Idle Game – 2013

Mississippi John Hurt – I’m Satisfied – 2013

Devendra Banhart – Old Folk Song 2013

If you’d like to commission one of an artist, musician, writer or philosopher that means a lot to you please get in touch.

Tom Waits in a Tree, 2013

The quote woven into the above picture:

“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day.

I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” – Tom Waits

Now, I like that.