Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft

Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft

by | May 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing

Sussex has many pretty villages, and Ditchling shows how many are being spoiled by traffic and their identities being subsumed into the metropolitan urbanity. The centre of Ditchling is the traffic jammed mini-roundabout, and of the rural lifestyle that attracted...
In a Mad World

In a Mad World

by | May 13, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Remembrance

The writing was on the wall in Europe long before 1939. Hitler came to power in 1933, the culmination of a series of economic and political catastrophes across Europe. Churchill warned a complacent British political class (aren’t they always?) of the dangers on the...
The Cat Sat

The Cat Sat

by | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels

Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
Chicago Style

Chicago Style

by | Jan 21, 2016 | art, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle

In 1871 Chicago had its fire. Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern in the barn. The city was built of timber – not just houses but boardwalks, road blocks, fences – and with the weather tinder dry, four square miles went up in flames as the...