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Monday, 20 April 2026

Bas-Arts-Index: Art & Series








Bas-Arts-Index have a set of 5 events titled Art & Series taking place over May. Each event focuses on a different town in the borough and responds to the area's locale through various themes:
These series of events are in collaboration with Towngate Theatre and have been supported by Arts Council England.

You can find full descriptions of the events below, with timings and locations, and for the events with booking, please do book to secure a space.



ART & SERIES


Wickford: Art & Religion
Saturday 9th May
2pm to 4pm
Location: St Catherine's Church, 120 Southend Rd, Wickford
Lead by Maxine Newell and Katie Carter-Leay
No booked required

Participants create a collaged artwork about a specific, meaningful memory, a significant personal moment in response to the church or a response to the story of St Catherine's.
St Catherine’s is a place to come and sit in peace and quiet, to have a look around at the beautiful building and create artwork that responds to the church’s uniqueness.


Langdon Hills: Art & Nature
Monday 11th May
11am to 2pm
Location: Essex Wildlife Trust Langdon Nature Discovery Centre
Lead by Maxine Newell and Sylak Ravenspine
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-nature-tickets-1987306807157?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1ylszpd*_up*MQ..*_ga*NDY1MTY2OTQ4LjE3NzYxODU1Nzk.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzYxODU1NzkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzYxODU1NzkkajYwJGwwJGgw

Join local artists Maxine Newell and Sylak Ravenspine to assist you in connection with the textural nature of our environment. Our event draws us all to engage through touch as much as through sight, and making physical contact with the fabric of the land creates deeper bonds with the landscape. Enjoy bookbinding with recycled items, making impression clay for printmaking and a print-gathering walk around the Plotlands area of the park.


Billericay: Art & Creative Business
Saturday 16th May
11am to 1pm
Location: Billericay Train Station
Lead by Shaun Badham and Cien Butler

Book a ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-creative-business-tickets-1987384533639?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1ylszpd*_up*MQ..*_ga*NDY1MTY2OTQ4LjE3NzYxODU1Nzk.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzYxODU1NzkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzYxODU1NzkkajYwJGwwJGgw

Are you curious about how a cultural business is run, or what it takes to run a premises? Join in this walking workshop to find out more!

Fancy a chat with those who run/organise these kinds of spaces and what the pros and cons are? Or simply fancy a walk with like minded creatives to explore numerous cultural venue/spaces that you might want to experience or get involved with in the future?

If so, then this guided walking tour through Billericay High Street will be for you.


Pitsea: Art & Smell
Saturday 23rd May
2pm to 4:30pm
Location: The Range, Pitsea market
Lead by Laura Whiting and Katie Carter-Leay

Book a ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-smell-registration-1987307773046?aff=erellivmlt

Join Katie and Laura for a facilitated Smell Walk to understand the world through a different sense. The session will start with an introduction to Smell Walks, inspired by the work of Dr Kate McLean as our foundation, and learning some drawing tips from Katie on mark making. Then we will venture around the market and to document our perceptions. The session will conclude with sharing how our investigations went and combining our findings onto a smell map of the market.


Basildon: Art & Public Space
Saturday 30th May
11am onwards
Location: Basildon Town Centre
Lead by Tony Marriage and Paul Rix Clancy
No booking required

This workshop explores emotional geography, the idea that people experience places through memory, identity and personal stories. Participants will contribute to a collaborative artwork that maps how Basildon’s public spaces are experienced by those who live, work and spend time in the town. By collecting reflections, stories and photographs connected to Basildon town centre and Gloucester Park, the project creates an evolving portrait of the town through the voices of its community.

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Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence.

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Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Artlyst: Bruegel To Rembrandt Drawing The Rise of Naturalism Compton Verney

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on ‘Bruegel to Rembrandt: Drawing Life, Sketching Wonder’ at Compton Verney:

'‘Patience’ shows naturalistic drawing utilised in the service of fantastical moral fables, while ‘Prudence’ shows the same style utilised in the service of realist moral fables. This shift from a focus on a fantastical demonic scene to a realistic rural scene in which, ‘as now, people look for a sense of control in times of uncertainty – preparing for harder days, these peasants store food and money, repair dilapidated buildings, and gather firefighting equipment’ – is part artistic, part social and part theological.

Religion plays a significant role throughout the changes explored and the genres displayed. An exquisitely illustrated 16th-century Flemish Book of Hours illuminates the relationship between prayer books and the depiction of everyday country life across the Netherlands in this period. However, a secularising element can also be seen, particularly when the Biblical content is minimised within an image to focus on the landscape in which the scene is set. An example of this tendency can be seen in Abraham Bloemaert’s ‘Landscape with the Prodigal Son’, where Bloemaert’s interest is mainly with the dilapidated house or barn against which the miniscule Prodigal leans and the living trees that the barn is built around.'


My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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De'Borah Powell - Open My Eyes.
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Sunday, 1 February 2026

Stride Magazine: Attention speaking attachment

My latest review of poetry for Stride Magazine is on Breath Notes, edited by Linda Kemp, amd The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun by Linda Kemp:

'Breath Notes is a chapbook that gathers responses to a call for poems attending to religion, faith and spirituality. This focus is an interesting, but entirely appropriate, one for a Press that also publishes a journal of experimental poetics. A similar engagement with religion, faith and spirituality is also to be found in the recent work of the anthology’s Editor, Linda Kemp, including her most recent collection of poems, The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun.'

My poetry reviews for Stride include a review of two poetry collections, one by Mario Petrucci and the other by David Miller, a review of Temporary Archive: Poems by Women of Latin America, a review of Fukushima Dreams by Andrea Moorhead, a review of Endangered Sky by Kelly Grovier and Sean Scully, a review of John F. Deane's Selected & New Poems, a review of God's Little Angel by Sue Hubbard and a review of Spencer Reece's 'Acts'.

My articles for Stride Magazine include 'Five entries in Prog 50' - a piece about five entries found in Prog 50 an encyclopaedia of Prog Rock edited by artist and musician Maurizio Galia - and an article about my 'Five Trios' series of poems. 'Five Trios' is a series of five long poems on thin places and sacred spaces in Essex and East London, each of which are also located within the Diocese of Chelmsford. The five poems in the series are:
These poems have been published by Amethyst Review and International Times.

To read my poems published by Stride, click here, here, here, here, here, and here. My poems published in Amethyst Review are: 'Runwell', 'Are/Are Not', 'Attend, attend' and 'Maritain, Green, Beckett and Anderson in conversation down through the ages'.

I am among those whose poetry has been included in Thin Places & Sacred Spaces, a recent anthology from Amethyst Press. I also had a poem included in All Shall Be Well: Poems for Julian of Norwich, the first Amethyst Press anthology of new poems. International Times have also published several of my poems, beginning with 'The ABC of creativity', which covers attention, beginning and creation, and most recently 'The Edge of Chaos', a state of existence poem.

Stride magazine was founded in 1982. Since then it has had various incarnations, most recently in an online edition since the late 20th century. You can visit its earlier incarnation at http://stridemagazine.co.uk. I have read the poetry featured in Stride and, in particular, the work of its editor Rupert Loydell over many years and was very pleased that Rupert gave a poetry reading when I was at St Stephen Walbrook.

Rupert Loydell is the editor of Stride magazine, contributing editor to International Times and a writer and abstract artist. He has many books of poetry and several collaborative publications in print, and has edited anthologies for Shearsman, KFS and Salt. His critical writing has appeared in Punk & Post-Punk (which he is on the editorial board of), Journal of Writing and Creative Practice, New Writing, English, Text, Axon, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Musicology Research, Revenant, The Quint: an interdisciplinary journal from the north and Journal of Visual Art Practice. He has also contributed chapters to Brian Eno. Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (Routledge, 2021) and Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Rupert has recently contributed several guest posts to 'Between'. These have been interviews musicians including Nick Battle and Steve Scott who contributed to the early days of christian rock in the UK. I have also published an interview with Rupert himself in which he shares his thoughts on that same period of christian rock, as well as speaking about other aspects of his career and interests. These posts can be read here, here, and here.

I have also written reviews of poetry for Tears in the Fence beginning with 'Modern Fog' by Chris Emery. My second review was of 'The Salvation Engine' by Rupert Loydell and my third was of 'For All That’s Lost' by David Miller. My poetry pieces for International Times are: an interview with artist, poet, priest Spencer Reece; an interview with the poet Chris Emery; plus reviews of 'Breaking Lines' at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art and 'What Is and Might Be and then Otherwise' by David Miller. I have also published pieces on poetry at Seen and Unseen - a profile of the poet Theresa Lola - and the Journal of Theological Studies - a review of Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite. For more on poetry, read my ArtWay interview with David Miller here and my interview with Rupert Loydell here. See also Rupert Loydell's interview with poet and musician Steve Scott. My own dialogues with Steve can be read here, here, here, here, and here.

Several of my short stories have been published by IT including three about Nicola Ravenscroft's EarthAngel sculptures (then called mudcubs), which we exhibited at St Andrew's Wickford in 2022. The first story in the series is 'The Mudcubs and the O Zone holes'. The second is 'The Mudcubs and the Clean-Up King', and the third is 'The mudcubs and the Wall'. My other short stories to have been published by International Times are 'The Black Rain', a story about the impact of violence in our media, 'The New Dark Ages', a story about principles and understandings that are gradually fading away from our modern societies, and 'The curious glasses', a story based on the butterfly effect.

My key literature posts (including poetry) are:
See also 'Art and Faith: Decades of Engagement: Introduction, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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Linda Kemp - Poetry reading.
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Monday, 2 September 2024

Artlyst - The Art Diary September 2024

My September Art Diary for Artlyst highlights a range of international exhibitions before returning to the UK for exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary, The Sainsbury Centre, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Elizabeth Xi Bauer. I also highlight two interesting art books, a new initiative by the Association of Art Historians and a charity auction jointly hosted by Bonhams and Hauser & Wirth:

'Also in Mallorca is Zupan & Zupan, an exhibition by father and daughter, Bruno and Natasha Zupan. Art critic Ed McCormick described Bruno Zupan’s work as such: “The real magic is in the paint surface itself, with its energetic bravura strokes, splashes, splatters, and drips forming a unified statement, as active, alive, and visually autonomous as an Abstract Expressionist work by de Kooning or Diebenkorn – yet simultaneously evoking the world outside the canvas … His rhapsodic brushwork and singular vision have garnered him a worldwide following among those who still seek beauty in the art of painting. Bruno Zupan is one of the last great romantics, and for that alone, his work is worth treasuring.” Zupan’s iconic technique using black filigree design over gold leaf was inspired by the Byzantine art of his homeland of Croatia. One of the ways in which he uses this style is to create images of churches that show the faithful moving towards love, “which is the basis of constructive religious belief”.'

See also my posts on Mallorcan visits, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. See my post on the upcoming exhibition by John Paul Barrett at St Andrew's Wickford, which is also mentioned in this month's Art Diary. 

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Big Star - Try Again.
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