My name is Bobby and I am 26 years old artist apprenticed to the spirit of this land of Albion. I am in service to the unfurling mystery of the Story.

It first occurred to me to ask about the Story around 5 years ago, when I was going through an intense psycho-spiritual crisis, during which began to awaken to the world as much more alive, magical and interconnected than I could have imagined…

My art springs from an unquenchable curiosity… my ongoing, evolving conversation with the world: what is the Story? Where is it? What shape, what colour, what pattern is the Story? How does it feel, look, taste, smell and sound? How is its flavour unique for you and for me? How does it communicate? How do our human stories fit into the Story? What about the non-human stories? How many stories does the Story hold? Is there a story beyond the Story? And why, at this time on the Earth, do some stories seem to be more important, relevant, or powerful than others? Just how complex, or simple, or paradoxical, is the Story’s true nature?

How can deepening our relationship with the Story help us to navigate the challenges of life and the threats we all face on this planet?

“And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.”

J. R. R. Tolkein, The Silmarillion