In the beginning….
It all started because of John.
John was my wife’s uncle, he was a research chemist who lived most of his life near Oxford in the house that his parents had built.
He was a private person who never married but was very pleased to see you if you visited (and I suspect equally pleased when you left). He was fiercely intelligent man who did not suffer fools gladly and their opinions were equally given short shrift. I liked him a lot.
What John liked were books and maps. His house was filled with them, and I mean stuffed full. The diversity of subject matter always astounded me; fact, fiction, reference, hardback, paperback, journal. I don’t know if there was a filing system- if there was it was unique to John and certainly not Dewey Decimal.
The maps covered the whole of the UK and beyond. I decided to use the maps as a basis for artwork. I hope you like what I've done.