Just been having a bit of a play in my darkroom over the summer with a big stack of optician’s lenses that I picked up at my local scrap store, they mostly came from Specsavers I think. I am particularly interested in them because I have recently realised that I may well need bi-focal glasses […]

These photographs were taken in 1971 and show the last days of Newton Abbot Art School. My father, Nathaniel Davies (sitting fifth from the left in the second row) was a lecturer in painting, drawing and sculpture; he later went on to be the head of the Art School when it moved to Torquay. It

I have recently been scanning some of my degree work from the mid 1980’s. It is quite hard to believe it now, but during the 1980’s football was not the omnipotent force it is today and there really was a possibility that other sports could challenge its popularity. American Football became quite a phenomenon at

I collect a number of things, most of which I buy at car boot sales. For a while I collected ‘Puzzled’Em’ cards. These are simple card games, that one suspects can only be played once, revolving around guessing the identity of everyday objects that have been photographed from unusual angles I have always been interested