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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…


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…


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…


Once Upon A Time…

Yes well, I'd like to launch into a fairytale and lord knows don't we half need a bit of suspension of reality given the grim state of world affairs. Facebook feels like a wall of white noise, alternately flooding with Read more…


An Orientalist is Born

I'm on the street outside my house and suddenly my heart lurches and I break out into a cold sweat. I've left the front door keys inside. And I'm butt naked. Ever happened to you? No? Me neither. Just in Read more…