On Friday the 23rd November there was a charity fundraising event for the Sobell House Hospice at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Over 500 attended to see Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris talk about their book 'The Lost Words' and how it has reached far further than they ever expected. Both Jackie and Robert were keen on Kerry Andrew finishing the evening with her song inspired by the book of the poem bluebell but she was working up in Scotland so Jackie asked if I coul

Last week I was invited to be part of the Kenilworth Arts Festival and deliver two days of The Lost Words Storywalks trails in partnership with Kenilworth Books. The trail I created had ten of the twenty spell poems from Jackie Morris' and Robert Macfarlane's book and was originally developed to support its launch nearly a year ago at Compton Verney gallery, Warwickshire. Initially I created two trails, each with five spell poems, the first of which was called 'flighty' and t

With The Lost Words now in the top ten books list, I think the 'spell book' has begun to weave its magic. Designed to re-engage nature words back into our language, the first exhibition of the original artwork opens this Saturday at The Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire. The Storywalks involvement has been to take the words on a digital trail around the Compton Verney grounds and as part of this I created some posts for the grounds. Each depicts a lost word - Heron, Wren,

The Lost Words, due out this autumn is a response from nature writer Robert Macfarlane and author illustrator Jackie Morris to 'spell words' back into the landscape which have been falling away from our children's common usage. As part of the launch there is to be an exhibition of Jackie's illustrations at the Compton Verney gallery and Storywalks will be taking these walks out into the grounds so visitors get the chance to literally spell and pace them back into the landscap