#prospectcottage

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent, Jun 2026.

#dungeness the obligatory #prospectcottage https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck545VloRyW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Sun Rising at #prospectcottage. Words by John Donne. • • • • • #bnw #monochrome #bnw_society #bnw_captures #blackandwhitephotography #bnw_life #bw_lover #bnw_planet #monoart #bw_society #noir #bw_photooftheday #igersbnw #insta_bw #instablackandwhite #bnw_globe #bnwmood #monochromatic #bw_crew #bnw_magazine #irox_bw #monotone #insta_pick_bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephoto #bw #martinstapleton #dungeness #fuji (at Dungeness) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckkv_neLOLd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The archiving of The Book of Lamentations is coming up an end and this is it’s penultimate post. The remnants are disjointed and fragmented with the first being from recent life drawing sessions from @thequeenofheartbreak with @the_liverpool_nude and #liverpoolindependentartschool - I’m not keen on the end result but the gold of life drawing is training to look and see rather than the finished outcome -so really it no longer feels important if I like the outcome or not. The next drawing is a test print of a small drypoint from our weekend courses at @bridewellstudiosliverpool looking toward the incinerator tower at the Royal. The last was a remaining test sample which found its home in a spare page of this book from our pre-Covid trip to Lancaster Iron Press to learn a photo-etching process. It depicts Saint Derek Jarman #prospectcottagedungeness #prospectcottage #derekjarman #queerart #queerartist #saint #lifedrawinglive #lifedrawing #lifemodel #figurestudy #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage #archive #photoetch #testprint #workshops (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhP1EusXng/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Book of Lamentations was not a planned document with a clear timeline so these pages record one of the last arts adventures we had before lockdown when @starrursula and @paulg.art took me to @Iron pressprintmaking for an intro to photo-etch. I was planning my next pilgrimage (these are a series of short performances where I go to various places of LGBT interest and treating them as shrines to Bodhisattvas and making Prostrations and offerings). My next one was to be #prospectcottage the earthly residence of and shrine to Saint #derekjarman Suddenly, although I had always wanted to make the journey the cottage was under threat from developers as we went into the first full lockdown. There was a noble fundraising effort put in place to save the #saveprospectcottage but I was panic stricken because the whole direction of the world was suddenly about covid while this place of remembrance of one of the fiercest voices of resisting the last big deadly virus was under threat. The target was hit just on the last day and the holy place saved. These pages are about that and my rereading “A Saint’s Testament” as part of my Queer Glimpses lectures just before lockdown. Again these pages are part complete and are likely to gradually become more layered- first is the digital design for the photo-etch of the Saint outside the shrine, second a print from that block, next an overly textured test print and following that some research images and tests including a monoprint of his face. Saint Derek in the Lapis Pureland of Infinite Blue Pray For Us. #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbook #photoetch #intaglio #prospectcottage #derekjarmansgarden #derekjarmanhouse #canonised #sistersofperpetualindulgence #icon #relic #pilgrimage #holyground (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDSkctMsGk/?utm_medium=tumblr

The archiving of The Book of Lamentations is coming up an end and this is it’s penultimate post. The remnants are disjointed and fragmented with the first two being from recent life drawings from @thequeenofheartbreak with @the_liverpool_nude and #liverpoolindependentartschool - I’m not keen on the end result of either drawing but the gold of life drawing is training to look and see rather than the finished outcome so really it no longer feels important if I like the outcome or not. The first is recent and the second from earlier today. The third drawing is a test print of a small drypoint from our weekend courses at @bridewellstudiosliverpool looking toward the incinerator tower at the Royal. The last was a remaining test sample which found its home in a spare page of this book from our pre-Covid trip to Lancaster Iron Press to learn a photo-etching process. It depicts Saint Derek Jarman #prospectcottagedungeness #prospectcottage #derekjarman #queerart #queerartist #saint #lifedrawinglive #lifedrawing #lifemodel #figurestudy #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage #archive #photoetch #testprint #workshops https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_dcXFMyEg/?utm_medium=tumblr

The Book of Lamentations was not a planned document with a clear timeline so these pages record one of the last arts adventures we had before lockdown when @starrursula and @paulg.art took me to @Iron pressprintmaking for an intro to photo-etch. I was planning my next pilgrimage (these are a series of short performances where I go to various places of LGBT interest and treating them as shrines to Bodhisattvas and making Prostrations and offerings). My next one was to be #prospectcottage the earthly residence of and shrine to Saint #derekjarman Suddenly, although I had always wanted to make the journey the cottage was under threat from developers as we went into the first full lockdown. There was a noble fundraising effort put in place to save the #saveprospectcottage but I was panic stricken because the whole direction of the world was suddenly about covid while this place of remembrance of one of the fiercest voices of resisting the last big deadly virus was under threat. The target was hit just on the last day and the holy place saved. These pages are about that and my rereading “A Saint’s Testament” as part of my Queer Glimpses lectures just before lockdown. Again these pages are part complete and are likely to gradually become more layered- first is the digital design for the photo-etch of the Saint outside the shrine, second a print from that block, next an overly textured test print and following that some research images and tests including a monoprint of his face. #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbook #photoetch #intaglio #prospectcottage #derekjarmansgarden #derekjarmanhouse #canonised #sistersofperpetualindulgence #icon #relic #pilgrimage #holyground (at Dungeness Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKl-cmNBHrj/?igshid=1ei6f8t6k2tg6

This set from the Book of Learning 2 opens with an old block of Buddha Ratnasambhava printed onto rainbow wrapping paper around Pride time. I’m fascinated by the relationship between layers in a print. The Buddha is monochrome but the under layer is an offering of colours. We had gone to Lancaster to #ironpressprintmaking for a day of CPD with @starrursula and @paulg.art to learn photo etching processes. We were very lucky to get the session and had it been now during covid it would have been a very different day. The results were very much fun and I was making a tribute to saint #derekjarman of Dungeness. It was at the start of the period where #prospectcottage was under threat from “developers” and the nightmare of the loss of a sacred place was looming. I imagined being able to get the print run done and sold to add to the fundraiser but the world had other ideas. The process was wonderful in that the image (mine was a digital photo collage of the man) was photocopied onto acetate and that was used as a positive to protect parts of the photosensitive plate from a UV exposing machine. The rest was then washed off with ordinary water and the image then revealed on the plate in fractional differences in height which could hold ink. After that it was wiped back and run through the press as normal to provide a photo detailed print. #sketchbook #linocut #linoprint #rainbowflag #buddha #ratnasambhava #saint #hero #dungeness #queerartist #queerart #derekjarmanhouse #derekjarmanscottage #liverpoolartist #printmakersofinstagram #prideflag #photoetching #intaglioprint #continuousprofessionaldevelopment (at Lancaster, England, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE18wpMn1fu/?igshid=1j2gmo1l4kb5h