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  • Christina’s World

    It must be difficult for anyone born after the 60’s to imagine how important single images could be in forming imagination and memory for someone older.

  • Daisy,Daisy

    Daisy,Daisy

    The oxeye daisy is like the English, a perennial survivor with an architectural beauty and determined toughness attractive to others

  • Sublimated

    I have a chair outside the studio where I can sit and take in the scents, maybe the sound of children’s innocence in the playground over the fence behind the studio. Maybe I’ll argue with the robin who harangues me if I haven’t filled his feeder. Perhaps the cat will come and jump on my…

  • Looking into the light

    I go down to the studio with my vision fractionally altered by a morning walk. Seaford’s clear air clarifies and intensifies colour, especially at sunrise. It’s part of an evolution as an artist and the challenge to keep disciplined

  • Carafe Colour

    Putting red wine in a second hand carafe raised the delight in the kitchen to a new level of pleasure

  • There be dragons…

    The idea that style might create a sense of belonging is nothing new. Throughout history, art and designs have repeatedly been used to build identity and unity. In Älesund the curatorship fo the Jugendstil Museum is is refining around the dragon motifs from Norwegian legend

  • A Conversation about Drawing

    A Conversation about Drawing

    Drawing processes have changed over time. From cotton grids, camera obscura, photographs and now the computer artists have always used machines to aid accuracy – maybe even Turner

  • Turner at the Towner

    Without a large oil painting this exhibition seduces, draws in close and gentle, sucks you into the artist’s handiwork. These pieces are precious from Cotman, Girtin, Hind and others, portraying the entrance to docks, ships, storms and pieces of Sussex to strike recognition as well as seducing through the eye. They contrast neatly with the…

  • Ravillious Revisited at the Towner

    There has been a Ravillious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius.

  • The Ponderwall

    It started with the weather images. Today I take them with a sophisticated digital camera but I started them in pre-digital times as small gouache paintings done very quickly and very small from my back doorstep

  • Standen – an age of innovation

    Like many a great piece of design everything here is a product of a singular design practice, Morris and Webb. Wallpapers, carpets, the totality of the fixtures and fittings is a celebration of the arts and Crafts movement so strongly espoused by Morris

  • The Death Sting

    I walk with a camera, sometime with my partner, sometime accompanied by a man and his dog but mostly alone, looking for the delights of man and nature. My painting is paused whilst I try to figure a way of working that will not challenge my body. I think of Matisse working in bed aided…