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ANGELS & DEMONS

WHY DEMONS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE THIN EDGE OF THE STICK Cant really blame Dan Brown, a mediocre writer of popular fiction, for reinforcing the idea (perpetuated by western religions)  that life is a battle between good (angels) and evil Read more…


Catching The Creative Muse

YOUR MUSE IS A CAT: she’ll never come when you call her. Has this happened to you too? Scenario: I’m in good company and animatedly recounting an anecdote…and suddenly I cant remember the punch line. Annoyed, I faff about and Read more…


The Art of Not Giving a…

It all began with the rough demo below, stuffed away in a “class demos folder” which I had created several years ago in my art classes for my awesome junior artists (awesome because I TOLD them they were awesome and Read more…


Influenced By The East

Orientalist dreamscape

Islam and Western Art Exhibition at The British Museum London I walked into the exhibition hall, with its subdued intimate lighting suggesting a tomb, or a womb, and I immediately felt a strange mix of detached familiarity and nostalgic homecoming. Read more…


2019 Retrospective of my art

Heres a collection of some of the art I produced during 2019. These include more of my faces of Africa, some portraits in a style I am developing, landscapes of Malta, semi abstract cityscapes semi abstract and my caricatures. Enjoy!


This Blog Has Been Renamed:

“WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I AM UP ALL NIGHT WRITING UNDER A WOLF MOON..” Originally: “THE HUNGER GAMES V: 5.3 + 1/2 SPOON OF YEAST.” PLAYERS pick you Avatar: Intense Artist vs. Loony Comic. In the first round we have the Read more…


10 Reasons: How I became a successful artist

Information in this post has been verified by Snopes.com to be Completely Utterly Entirely True In my misspent youth (read delinquent layabout), success and I didn’t look like our paths were ever going to cross. More likely I looked set on a collision course involving many Read more…


Listening to the Voices of Dead People

DISCLAIMER: this post does not involve cruelty to animals such as bungie jumping rabbits force fed on crack. (SPOILER: Ending is ghastly.) I’m in my lifelong sanctuary, my thrill zone which I suspect even a bungie jump from some spectacular Read more…


Houdini’s Got Nothing On Me

OK I’m not talking about being dunked in an olympic sized water tank tied up to my eyeballs in chains usually used to tether continental tankers. Nor am I talking about being in a creepy subterranean room, empty save for Read more…


PopUpArt!

I do love it when I’m right. Dont get me wrong, I dont obsess about it, or go around in this tshirt (much as I confess I’m tempted) but when it comes to teaching art, I thrive on proving that Read more…