Open Letter – Emergency Appeal

  Open Letter Published in The Telegraph (UK) on 7th July 2011   Sir- East Africa is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st century. Livestock are dying, markets are empty, food prices are rocketing and people are starving. Levels of acute malnutrition...

The signature of Toulouse Lautrec

The signature of Toulouse Lautrec YES..This is Toulouse Lautrec’s signature! You can witness it for real in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And that journey alone is something worth investigating. I fell in love with his art work when I was about...

Eye View

I suggest you blow this up till it becomes a kind of blurry  dot dance, and then you can  zoom back to see how it all collates into becoming something more "solid" again. Perhaps you might find it  to be a pointles exercise, or perhaps it...

Manet’s Brushstrokes!

I went too close to the canvas than I should, but I couldn’t resist. The idea that Manet actually made contact through brushstroke and paint to canvas with each delicate point is actually mind blowing. Step away from the painting, and you get a broader sense of...

Divine roses from the Portobello flower stand..

Portebello Road gets flooded with tourists from every part of the globe most days of the week…but that’s all fine….London’s better off for it! Here are some flowers from my favourite stall.. A feast for the eyes any day of the week.