26 Jan Art in the time of Covid 2020-2022
For much of these last two years of pandemic, it's been difficult to arm myself against the ongoing anxiety so many of us have experienced, and the new narrowness of life. Like most artists...
05 Feb Some Lockdown home-school art for juniors
Hello! I'm surprising myself by opening up the blog after such a long silence, but I thought I'd try contributing to the art life of the many junior home-schoolers out there. There are a lot of children out there who are missing their friends and...
04 Apr Facing the Music : Art meets Jazz
I'll start by admitting that there's a certain amount of ritual involved in my process, as I suspect there is for most of my artist colleagues. Coffee is almost always involved,...
21 Nov Lasting inspiration at the Courtauld, 1968 – 2017
A couple of weeks ago I had a great moment. I went to the Courtauld Gallery to have a look at the Soutine exhibition, and while I was there I was consumed by nostalgia for the countless visits I made to the Courtauld Institute while...
03 Oct Backwards and Forwards: welcome to my new website!
Last week I had the pleasure of being invited for coffee with someone young (i.e. well under the age of 40) - a super- delightful treat as she is mellowed out at home expecting her first baby and lives just around the corner from me...
14 Mar Safar: a journey for me, too
One of my recent series is 'Safar: journey', and it's inspired by the imagined wanderings of my ancestors through millennia from the biblical Middle East to Europe. Below is "Caspian Journey", my imagined plan of the route, and clearly I'm no geographer, although I'd like to...
23 Apr Back to the real
Friends, this has become more of an occasional outreach than a blog, and the blame lies with me and my new best 'friend', Instagram. How much easier, how tempting it's been these past months, to point my iphone at a painting and without thinking very hard,...
22 Feb Past, Present, Future
I seem to be starting out as I always do...
13 Jan Come back soon…2014 is starting in earnest!
A new start - but not quite yet - come back soon, when I will reveal the truth about the medical mishap which led to my indisposition this summer, and also - at last - some new work. ...
05 Jul Friends! the universe has played a little joke!
The perfect controllable world of the model railway which I conjured up for you in my last post has been struck by a thunderclap. Despite our best efforts fate, reserves the right to smack us in the face at will - illustrated by the image...
29 May Mind the gap – as in railways, so in art.
I see that my last post was in November, and I could give you loads of reasons why - Christmas, travel, teaching commitments, cooking for hordes of people - but none of them stand scrutiny or give even a flavour of the work that's going on...
30 Nov How the zebra got into my stripes
Another week where I have to begin by grovelling to my superego as almost no painting has happened since my last post, but on the other hand there’s been plenty of thinking and mulling going on. I came across this photo, which I took in Paris...
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