A Superior Substitute for Life
Julian Barnes, one of my favourite writers, poses the question – “is art a depiction of reality, a concentration of it, a superior substitute for it, or just a beguiling irrelevance?” (excerpt from the novel, […]
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The Hot Mother Goddess Debate
This blog describes Paintings I created between 2019 – 2021 that explored European Neolithic art and the culture of my ancient forebears. I am interested in this culture as it appears to have been focused […]
Art, Activism & the Avant-Guard
Art as Counterbalance In a rather startling development, what could in previous years have been described as a general lack of interest in the arts appears to be blossoming into antipathy towards the arts in […]