My Art Collections and Art Blog
19th August 2022
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…
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…
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 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…
21st August 2017
I love scary movies-not the slash and burn type-more of the spooky sort. I recall watching one such movie ages ago, late at night (when else?), alone (because no-one else fancied being scared shitless) and almost dislocated my back from Read more…
27th March 2017
Two years ago I was approached by a young couple with a surprising proposition: they wanted to commission me to paint Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper". In my style was the only specification. I felt alternately daunted, disinterested, resistant Read more…
17th August 2016
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…
27th July 2016
It's a tremendously satisfying experience to meet a group of total strangers one day and within 48 hours feel you’ve become the best of friends. And the only bonding exercise used was painting together. So it was at a recent Read more…
