In 2024 Tony Eva contacted me about my painting of Milton's Mulberry Tree in the Fellows Garden at Christ's College, Cambridge. I have drawn the tree several times and eventually made a painting of it in my studio.

Tony came to interview me on camera about my painting and some of this interview appears in his film. I remember being incredibly nervous but needless to say I find that tremendously exiting!

The mulberry tree you see in the garden today was grown from the root of an original tree planted in 1609 (the year after English poet John Milton's birth). The tree is large, has a mound at the bottom, and has been propped up by wooden posts since it was uprooted in a storm in 1795.

The tree still provides a good crop of mulberries each summer - the College gardeners pick them and take them to the College kitchens, where they are used to make jam. Mulberries have a sweet flavour but you don't normally find them in shops.

It is rumoured that the jam is only eaten by the fellows at Christ's.

The film is open to everyone, so if you are free, please make your way to the theatre at Christ's