Hi, my name is Jon. I’m a writer, musician, and photographer. I shoot across a variety of cameras including Polaroid, 35mm, and digital format.
At present, I live in Oxfordshire with my young daughter, one-too-many cats, and spend a portion of my time being bad at video games.
I’m also the frontman of London's loudest rock 'n' roll band, The Heat Inc.
The Noisy What?
The Noisy Alchemist was a working column that originally ran from February 2018 - March 2021. It covered a range of topics, from books, records, photography and pop culture to whatever happened to be occupying my day, three times weekly, for a little over three years. It was a constant and I came to set a large part of my internal clock by it. It also became an oasis of sorts for both myself and a bunch of other, wonderful people I was blessed to meet because of it.
In 2021, things were a little weird. Most of the world was closed for business. The news was…the news and I was a father. Time was scarce. Shuttering The Noisy Alchemist was a tough decision but it was the right one to make at the time. That said, I have thought about it on the daily and I have thought about it often.
Now feels as good a time as any to bring it back. Different, yes but with the same ethos: It has always been a place for me to write on the regular and to share the things that interest me personally, as well as a place to document a life that goes on behind the words, the music, and the photo.
I hope something in it interests you, perhaps even speaks to your own experience. If I’m lucky and lightening does indeed strike twice, it may well just take on a life of its own once more, becoming something else in the process…
If that’s not a form of alchemy, I don’t know what is.
Be Incorporated…
The life of an artist is rarely self assured and success these days looks more like a continuation of creativity than anything else at all.
Be part of a community of like-minded individuals who share your interests, participate in the comments section, or support this work with a subscription, i.e. buy me a coffee, shake your tail feather…and be Incorporated.
