We may be more likely, nowadays, to find ourselves tussling with a fellow shopper for the last pack of tomatoes on the shelf (at the time...

It’s often whilst working on a picture that ideas for other pieces suggest themselves, which means there are lineages of imagery in my...

A single looping line and three dots have changed the way I think about spectrums. Each sexy drawing in this series of ‘Libido Lines’...

A line of gunpowder lit in the open burns and fizzles with little effect; pack it into a confined space and it becomes explosive....

The layers of one’s internal world range from refined verbal thoughts through to deep-seated emotional drives. I liken it to the...

We have a habit of setting ourselves apart from the natural world, as though we are superimposed onto it and our manmade environments and...

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” – William Blake Human imagination and the fantastic variety of...

The night is a time of inversions. Light fades to dark, waking consciousness dissolves into sleep, the external concerns of our daytime...

It was the preeminent psychoanalyst Carl Jung who introduced the idea of the collective unconscious in the early 20th century. He noticed...

Undoubtedly, the Abstract Expressionists (or New York School, as they were also known) were influenced by Surrealism. In fact, the...

Wer war der Tor, wer der Weise[r], “Who was the fool, who the wise [man], Wer der Bettler oder Kaiser? who the beggar or the Emperor? Ob...

Hands up, who’d like to own a painting by the legendary Pablo Picasso? It looks like a lot of you—including some very wealthy people....

“The studio is a laboratory…” ~ Chris Ofili The full quote is actually, “The studio is a laboratory, not a factory,” but for the purposes...

Well, there are actually two points to starting this blog… Thoughts are such fluid things that they can be rather tricky. They generally...