My Art Collections and Art Blog
10th January 2020
I think there’s a unique buzz one experiences when standing in front of paintings by an artist one admires which can’t quite be matched when viewing the same paintings online or in a publication. Its an immersive experience which takes Read more…
7th January 2020
One of the most memorable characters in English literature is the Artful Dodger from #CharlesDickens book #OliverTwist. A dictionary search defines the word artful as skilful in a clever and cunning way, as well as skilful in a tasteful way. Read more…
10th February 2019
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…
9th February 2019
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…
3rd February 2019
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…
12th January 2019
I hate January. Its a time of year when my gut instincts are to shut down and hibernate (I’m sure I’m a genetically modified squirrel) but it invariably tends to be a month that’s riddled with shit storms. (I just Read more…
11th January 2019
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…
12th March 2018
Africans are a people blessed with an innate gracefulness and charm. When they smile, they release a contagious endorphin; when they laugh, they laugh with their whole body, an uplifting energy which you'd have to be chronically depressed not to Read more…
4th March 2018
Loud grumbling thunder starts rolling across the heavy laden night sky. I lounge in a rattan armchair in the subdued light of a wide veranda, glass of exquisite South African wine at my elbow. The warm rain is coming down Read more…
25th January 2018
I am having a hard time putting my thoughts down. Its like being a shepherd without a sheepdog, trying to coral a flock of bloody minded sheep charging off in all directions. At the best of times the inside of Read more…
