I am exploring making moving images for my songs. I make drawings and am experimenting with stop animation. I want to keep creating with my own hands.

Moving Images

4 track E.P. from new album 'Love & Other Stories, including title track 'Lately', & new hand drawn video, 'Million Miles' & 'Lay Me Down', as played on BBC Introducing CWR, & 'Your Smile', available to download & stream on all major platforms.'

Lately

I was inspired by the words 'out of chaos stars are born'. I am blessed with friends that say beautiful things, and in times of crisis a wise few words can carry me into another place.

As we are all borrowed star dust and wonder, this sentence to me, not only evokes the beginning of the beginning, but also slams down the infinite possibility that what may seem like a total disaster, can actually become a thing of beauty, depending how you look at it ..... and it's good to look back, but it's also good to hold the space, & stop, & just let it be whatever it is. 

I made this video in one take, the stars aren't about becoming a star, as we all are made of stars, but they represent shining inside.

The Ballad of Mary Morgan: A Lost Voice from Presteigne 'Released 10th Oct'

Ballad of Mary Morgan

I first heard of Mary Morgan when I was living in the Marches, Powys. In St Andrew’s church yard Presteigne, is the grave of Mary Morgan. Mary Morgan (c. 1788 – 15 April 1805), a young servant who was convicted and hanged for killing her newborn child. There is much speculation about who the father was.

The people of Presteigne were apparently so outraged at her death sentence that nobody stepped forward to drive her cart to the gallows. A few days after her 17th birthday Mary was hung, her body originally buried in unconsecrated ground outside the grave yard.

The Ballad of Mary Morgan, is my imagined Mary narrative, a possible narrative among the many – a story forever lost in the madness of hasty judgements & misunderstandings –I set out to give Mary a voice.

Kitchen Sketchbook Diaries

This song 'Lay Me Down' was first written in my 20's. Recently when I was writing the albums I found a box of tapes (really) and there I found Lay Me Down, the original version. I first wrote this song on the north coast of Ireland, the West wind breezing in moving huge clouds across immense skies. In the rewrite I am thinking of the west as a relentless machine: 'trees stumbling up the mountainside, waving their leaves goodbye'.

Writing 'Lay Me Down' I imagined spinning on this ball called earth and what it would look like from outer space if we all lay down, each with lights, side by side across the world, to protect our beautiful natural planet from harm.

'Small as a star on a distant shore, radiating out across the void, spinning round on this glitter ball, somewhere in this universe

I was born with a song singing in my heart

We're all tiny dancers on the crests of stars

A sky with no song don't sing

A sky with no song don't bring the dawn in

Let's shake the gold from their hands

Let's draw a line in the sand'

Kitchen Diaries is a window into my sketchbook where nothing's ever finished.

'Lay Me Down' as played on BBC Introducing & one of 4 track E.P. 'Lately'

Open Book

Open Book, the first video exploring my hand in motion, my connection to the page in the moment & the flow of the pencil intertwining the lyrics with my raw drawings.

This video is made in 2 takes. I wanted the work to evolve and be drawn with out any polish, with frayed lines coexisting with my lyrics. Life felt unpredictable & gritty, and I wanted to portray the instability I was feeling & the way that things can dissolve without warning, like everything is a dream that becomes liquid...no matter how solid it felt. I was exploring the moment & recording it.

This film is dedicated to our Dad, Stanley Morgan, our brother Simon Morgan & our Uncle Pete, all of whom we miss without measure, every day. And to everyone who carries on in hope.

I am an open book half done

Blank pages stretch before me

Now you are gone

I am an open book half done

Scribbles across my pages

Where we went wrong

Hope in every breath, hope in every step that I take.