Gender	Male
Occupation	garden-maker, writer, artist becoming, bookseller
Location	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Introduction	A garden-maker who values garden-making as a art-form and as a sanctified connection to a broader purpose and stewardship and as an expression of beauty; a sometime writer and poet, an assembler of visual and sculptural compositions, a bookseller. I like a humane originality, quiet sorts of spaces and wildness. This blog covers work in my own garden, visits to wherever I'm inspired to go and representations - visual, literary or theatrical - of my feeling, depending on climates interior and exterior. I'm interested in site-specific design, land-art, environmental integrity and sculptural forms originating from nature. I am also interested in ideas of rescue and revival as they apply to damaged landscapes and gardens, in aesthetics, and in the spiritual origin, the spiritual reality of all life.
Interests	Landscape, trees, natural forms, the slow, the handmade, literature, writing, art, sculpture, garden design, the preservation of wildness, the presence of wildness in gardens, ruins, the obscure or forgotten, architecture, collecting, aesthetics, integrity, authenticity, the spiritual dimension of life, cigarettes and coffee, much admired artists are Andy Goldsworthy, John Piper, Caroline Rannersberger, Rosalie Gascoigne, Giuseppe Penone, Clarice Beckett, Theo Jansen ('Strandbeest'), Polixeni Papapetrou, David Nash, Fiona Hall, Antony Gormley, David Noonan, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Albert Namatjira.
Favorite music	Lana del Rey lately, soundscapes, Sigur Ros, Beethoven, Vangelis, Edith Piaf, Goldfrapp, Coldplay, Rautavaara, The Flaming Lips, Bach, Bjork, Nick Drake, Rob Dougan, Lisa Gerrard, Philip Glass, Royksopp, Christian hymns, the songs of birds, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, Thomas Otten.
Favorite books	A Month in the Country by J L Carr, The Generous Earth by Philip Oyler, William Trevor, Jane Gardam, James Joyce's Ulysses, the poet Les Murray, Gerald Murnane, The Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd, Roger Deakin's Wildwood: a Journey through Trees, Gerald Durrell, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth David, Plenty: Digressions on Food by Gay Bilson, Alan Bennett, The Lost Gardens of Heligan by Tim Smit, Anton Chekhov, Christopher Lloyd, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Jan Morris, Nicolas Rothwell, The Monocled Mutineer, Emily Dickinson, W G Sebald, Claudio Magris's Microcosms, Anita Brookner, The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A J Mackinnon, William Blake, Dan Pearson's Spirit: Garden Inspiration, Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson, A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature by Margaret Drabble, Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, Beatrix Potter, Glendurgan: a Personal Memoir of a Garden in Cornwall by Charles Fox, Corvus: a Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson