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Go on, Get Lost!

I'm laid back; it's an Aquarian thing. I'm often told that if I was more laid back, I'd be comatose. And that's just from the friendlies! But I do have my screaming banshee moments. Usually in the confines of my 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…


The Other Lawrence of Arabia

With requisite bush hat pulled low over my eyes to shield my face from the glaring sunlight, my trigger finger poised over the button, I scan the crowd of industrious workers bustling around me. My trained eye constantly focusing and Read more…


The Art of Wasting Time

 “Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” Albert Einstein   In a previous blog I mentioned my box fetish which goes some way towards explaining why I simply love working on my series of quirky "urban landscapes". I am often Read more…


Groovy Baby!

"If you remember the 70s then you weren't there." Heard that before? I don't remember much of it but not for the reason that you think. I didn't have much opportunity to indulge in the happy camper spliff smoking culture Read more…


Mind-bending trip to the gallery!

I must confess that, in spite of my love for visiting bookshops, especially when I am in London, I am contributing to their demise. I'll enjoy the experience of browsing but more often than not, it'll end up being a Read more…


Back to the Beginning 2: Out of Africa

I have never quite forgiven my parents for wresting me away at the tender age of 9 years from my idyllic childhood in East Africa. When I later learned that some of my #LoretoMsongari schoolmates had remained in Africa and Read more…


Urban Landscape paintings: #50shadesofgrey

I've always had a fetish about boxes. I could stock an entire cat sanctuary with the collection I've got. Ranging from carved #Indian wooden boxes from the #MiddleEast to retro biscuit tins bought at a market in #London to plastic Read more…


Back To The Beginning

Save for an intermission of 13 years when I was married and raising my 4 kids in Bahrain, my life has rotated tightly around one singular desire: to create art. It's been that way since I was about 11, as Read more…


Why I Love Being an Art Tutor

 I can proudly say that in many of my adult art classes, the artists-in-training will often behave like children: at times rebellious and argumentative but most of all playful. I welcome it since my objective is to coax them into Read more…