an optimistic new year message This year we have a bumper olive harvest – the biggest, since we planted our new grove twenty years ago. The work of picking, pruning and burning off is the most intense of the year. The large crop feels somehow auspicious, as do the copious rains and the unusually crisp … Continue reading “A light unto the nations”* like it or not…
Carl Jung famously referred to occurrences of synchronicity as “meaningful coincidences that cannot be explained by cause and effect.” He thought that there was something more profound going on than sheer coincidence, something to do with a “deeper order of the universe…” While I can see the attractiveness of this line of reasoning I find … Continue reading THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE TWO PIZANS – And more synchronicity?*
It’s been quite a while since I published a “live” postcard-type piece, but this current trip to Coimbra, Portugal’s oldest (and Europe’s third-oldest) university city has drawn me to the keyboard. Incredible to think, that we have been living on the Iberian Peninsula (on our finca in southern Andalusia and in Gibraltar) for well over … Continue reading A POSTCARD FROM COIMBRA
In my four decades or so as a professional artist, fine and commercial, my most successful medium, from a financial perspective was gouache. For those who may not know, gouache (also called body-colour) is a form of watercolour paint, but with a denser, “gummier” pigment and more body and opacity. All of which makes it … Continue reading GOUACHE – the most forgiving medium
ARKS, ADAM AND AXARQUIA 