UTTER NONSENSE

For Winter I go no further than the garden. The stagnation, the decay, the death, the re-birth, the eternal promise of the new and as the...

The essence of youth, the New Year, impatience, identity, the emotive marker, the murmuring of generations, the running of a thread, the...

Christmas is this family gathering, it rises and falls, the generations grow, move on, grow again, too many, becomes unmanageable,...

A 'double bill' from one of today's defining sculptors and good friend, Bridget Heriz. Earlier in the month Bridget launched her book [as...

Last Tuesday and two great launches by two great friends. Patricia Daunt's book, The Palace Lady's Summerhouse published by Cornucopia...

The 'big three' portrait exhibitions in London, the National Portrait gallery to see Paul Cezanne, the Tate Modern to see Amedeo...

I don't sustain a way of seeing. I'm as random as form itself, a collector in the dark, re-creating the balcony from which to observe,...

Two stunning exhibitions: In London, the exhibition of portraits by Chiam Soutine at the Courtauld Gallery [19 October 2017 - 21 January...

Several years back I came across the Assyrian friezes in the British Museum, some of which depict military campaigns dating back to...

Today is the launch of my year long manifesto, For Our Love Of War. Over the next twelve months I will be exploring the child like...

My sister, a poet, invites me along to Aldeburgh for the poetry festival. I've been going every year since 2003 and although I confess to...

Documentary photography demands the viewer to respond in a certain way. It takes the decision, it's fact, the wrappers are off. I'm at my...

Tony Ray-Jones, Blackpool c1967 The exhibition currently showing at the excellent Time & Tide museum in Great Yarmouth is a beautiful...

These are are vast landscapes we ride through. Where specificity of time and space find equilibrium. There truly is a sense of being....

We are riding towards the mountain of the 'lost boy', a bitter wind on our backs, the horses gingerly breaking the ice as we cross the...

Everything happens with a quiet solemnity, a quiet certitude, an unexplainable and seamless change from one day to the next. No-one asks,...

All went to plan for the one day 'pop-up' exhibition. Good to get everyone over to the warehouse to see what we're working on. I arrived...

Great Yarmouth dances beyond the conformities of a controlled aesthetic. As Giuliana Bruno has said, ‘a landscape is, in many ways, a...

The visual world is a limitless paradigm of invention, a restless excuse for documentation and experiment and whoever creates the...

At the Tate Modern they have this temporary outdoor installation spraying a thin vapour mist in to the surrounding patio area. Children...

Back in June I went to the exhibition, 'America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930's', held at the Royal Academy in London. "45 truly...

Can somebody put Trump and Kim Jong-Un back in their play pens. The world is too small for these hamsters. "Fire & fury", "things will...