A year or so after leaving art school and then having to leave my home in the forest I moved into a council estate in nearby Thetford.

As a young artist at the beginning of my career, and with the whole vast world to try to make sense of, I would collate drawings, photographs, drawings on photographs, texts, cuttings etc on A5 index cards. Whatever I was making, an element of it would have a life on an A5 card.

This was, of course, long before the digital revolution. Some work would grow beyond the confines of A5 and I also made individual A4 box files - all of which were, in themselves, 'the work'.

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Winter 1971/72

I had left St Martin's School of Art back in the summer and, thanks to a couple of friends, I was offered the use of Railway Cottages - deep in the forest in Norfolk . . . rent free!

The deal was that I was to live there and keep the place warm, and I was to vacate it occasionally - when some Railway Cottages partners wanted to stay.   On these occasions I would head off north on my moped to Cley next the Sea.   My residence at Railway Cottages may have also been dependent on a few other little details like keeping the place clean and tidy.

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