…and getting things in proportion Since the coronavirus crisis has taken hold, like the editors of The Archers*, I’ve been agonising over whether or not I should keep this a virus-free zone? Then, as often happens to me when planning these pieces, I was distracted / motivated by something unexpected. In this case I wasContinue reading “SMOKING OVER THE SMOKED SALMON, DURING THE BLITZ…”
Monthly Archives: March 2020
PAINTING FROM PHOTOGRAPHS – mundane craft or true modern art?
Photography has played an ever-growing role in my picture-making since the first day of the second term, of my second year at Saint Martin’s School of Art. It was a bleak winter’s day in 1980 and I remember feeling particularity depressed about the direction – or lack of direction to be precise that my paintingContinue reading “PAINTING FROM PHOTOGRAPHS – mundane craft or true modern art?”
