Old News, Essays and Writing

Coastival 2011

04/09/11

Time & Tide: an exhibition for Scarborough
Stephen Joseph Theatre Feb - March 2011 ...more

NYOS 2011

04/09/11

North Yorkshire Open Studio 2011
Helen Birmingham (Artist No 105) ...more

Visual Interpretation of Theory of Evolution - an illustrated talk

04/09/11

Talk given to Friends of Scarborough Museum 2010 ...more

Reflections - Friends of Scarborough Library

04/09/11

Time & Tide: an exhibition for Scarborough ...more

Origin of Species - an essay

04/09/09

2009 commemorated the 150th anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of Species”, a book which contained such revolutionary ideas that it still provokes controversy. This essay is my attempt to say thank you to Charles Darwin. Thank you for having the passion, belief and bravery to show the world the exquisite simplicity which underlies its creation.

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." Charles Darwin ...more