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1914-2014 : A Century in View
We are currently surrounded by a stream of media memories of the outbreak of the first World War. My own father, born in 1901, was just too young to serve in that war but he was to serve with honour in the Desert Campaign of the next. Through him and his generation's...
The Hands of Time : My Week in View
Art is never still, always moving. I often work on a piece over several weeks, changing and overpainting. The work evolves until it speaks directly. Progress is an uncertain thing, evolution is a better word. Art of course has evolved, every age has its contemporary,...
Shine Here to Us : My Week in View
In a week of troubled and darker skies I have finished painting a sunrise. The sun is our constant source of light and life. It never fails us and inspires awe in its power and grandeur. John Donne wrote wonderfully about our Suns eternal source in his poem "The Sun...
Matisse the Master : My Week in View
For as long as I can remember Matisse has been, with Picasso, the defining inspiration for creative modern artists. He hovers above us always out of reach as both painter and sculptor of genius. One of my personal claims to fame was that I was alive before he died in...
Whistler in the Darkness : My Week in View
I am member of the Chelsea Arts Club, a wonderful institution founded in 1891 by the painter James McNeill Whistler. He is, I think, still an underrated artists who influenced many and fought the battle for modernism, nearly ruining himself in the process. His famous...
Bowie to Rodin, Mythologies : My Week in View
Bowie: Art’s survivors are a special breed, not just the classics but those artists who continue to be relevant throughout their lifetime and beyond. This week I was again working on lyrics for a song with composer Thol Mason on the theme of Icarus and myth of human...