Ballot Archive

07 Apr 2022

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Timothy Easton

Academic degrees, honours etc.

n/a

Profession or occupation

Artist

Grounds for election

Timothy Easton is a professional artist and also an architectural historian. He has made many contributions to the study of timber-framed buildings in Suffolk and more widely in eastern England. He was the first to draw attention to the use of paint and pencilling on early brickwork (papers in Post-Medieval Archaeology 1986 and in P. Oliver (ed.) Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 1997). He was awarded a Churchill Travelling Fellowship to enable him to further his research on this subject in six European countries 1996-7 (paper presented to the Medieval Europe Brugge 1997 Conference). He was also a pioneer in recognising the presence of a variety of apotropaic marks and symbols on buildings and has written widely on the subject (chapters on ‘Apotropaic Symbols and Other Measures for Protecting Buildings against Misfortune’ and ‘Spiritual Middens’ in R. Hutton (ed.) Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain, 2015.

Signatories

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