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...

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,...

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...

It's a beautiful Autumn day which is good on several counts. Firstly, I hate hot weather, and secondly I prefer my winter clothes. Thirdly I am still attached to the whole 'new school year' thing, so I always feel refreshed and ready for something new...