Sim Elliott Feb 22 23 min A bird-focused walk from Craven Woods to Beacon Hill: historical & cultural resonances. Friday 19.02.21. Like, I suspect, many people, after a year of covid-19, I often feel flat. Whilst the vaccination programme offers hope,...
Sim Elliott Feb 21 11 min Skylarks: photos & birdsong; poetry & music. Nature and art in troubling times. Click here to hear a field recording of singing Skylarks recorded on 20.02.21 in Ovingdean. On Saturday (20/01/21) I spent nearly two...
Sim Elliott Jan 27 10 min Birds as symbols in art. Revised: 02/02.21 Birds are frequently used as symbols in art; to express human-animal connection; human hopes; spiritual beliefs; and...
Sim Elliott Jan 6 5 min On Photography: Pavement botany; savouring pleasures felt finding beauty in the built environment. Photography is many things: a profession, a hobby, what you do on holiday, an art form, a form of activism, a way of making scientific...
Sim Elliott Jan 1 1 min Stanmer Woods - Shape, Colour, Pattern. This blog post is a record of my experience of walking through Stanmer Wood and focussing my attention on what I saw, "bathing in the...
Sim Elliott Dec 4, 2020 4 min Slow looking: taking my time watching a Moorhen and a Little Egret Slow looking is a form of mindfulness and, as such, an antidote to mindlessness and distraction. It teaches us to be present in our...
Sim Elliott Nov 24, 2020 2 min "Ringed by the flat horizon": Photographs of the coast, Brighton to Goring, and painted landscapes. These photos of the coast from Brighton to Goring were taken whilst cycling along the National Cycle Network Route 2 on Monday 23/11/20....
Sim Elliott Nov 23, 2020 6 min (The sublime) landscape and wellbeing in the time of covid-19. The importance of experiencing "sublime" landscapes was known to elite 18th and 19th century Grand Tourists; and was theorised by the...
Sim Elliott Nov 19, 2020 3 min Franz Marc, Animals and Spirituality Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and print maker. He was a colleague of Kandinsky, and one of the...
