Evolution
In 2025, I relocated to Cumbria with my new-found friend; to find space for their camper-van, and Arwyn. I’ve also found some rural peace and quiet, which is allowing me to progress again with my architecture, which has reemerged from it’s post-Covid torpor.
My path through architecture has been fruitful; buildings stand, homes are lived in. As for my ambition to be better than an architect; my work was preferred for prime sites in historic Oxford, and Wargrave. The blind striving, and youthful resistance that carried me through my early career, though, has been overcome by a growing realisation; that I made it already.
Now, in 2026, I have two buildings; Fanny Street, and Backsideans, shortly to start on site, and North Street in the final stages before another pre-application. As I prepare these jobs, that I started years ago, I am witnessing that I now have a radically elevated level of skill. The architectural solutions I can now envisage and implement are far more elegant and spacious, and my process less arduous. Even though I took a substantial break, I have improved. Thinking of what Niall McGlaughlin had said; I had experience, perhaps I now have appreciation too.
I have lived a great deal, never finding a place to be at peace, until now. Always with a view towards adaptability, I have invested the last chunks of cash from my remaining projects in a broadcast capable digital filming setup to pursue that other passion not mentioned, and I will be replacing my 12 year old MacBook Pro. I have a boat to finish, and my work schedule is full, for now. Perhaps I will soon have Arwyn on the water, a home, and the ability to work from anywhere; in architecture, music, broadcast content, and composites fabrication.