Category Archives: art

Joris-Karl Huysmans on Modern Art

Posted on May 17, 2020 by

  One of my favourite authors! His views on Modern Art are at last translated by Brendan King (Dedalus, 2020). Tim Keane has an excellent article about this in Hyperallergic – a very good art site.

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Painted Pallets, May 2020…

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 Continuation of my painted pallets – the sheets of cartridge paper I use to test brush loads and marks when … Continue reading →

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Write where we are now

Posted on May 2, 2020 by

Pleased to see two poems of mine in Write where we are Now Carol Ann Duffy’s initiative with Manchester University, during lock-down. Scroll down for more, and you’ll find them. Click for other Links to Poems of mine or browse … Continue reading →

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Painted Pallets, April 2020…

Posted on April 21, 2020 by

  40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 Click here for Painted Pallets 1- 20  When I paint figurative watercolours, I always have a piece of paper … Continue reading →

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Painted Pallets, March 2020…

Posted on April 4, 2020 by

  20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13   12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Project started mid-March 2020. I took the sheets used as pallets for my figurative water-colours and decided to … Continue reading →

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Heron of Hawthornden

Posted on February 3, 2020 by

At last Heron of Hawthornden is published – now as a Grey Suit Editions UK special illustrated chap-book. I wrote two dizains a day for the length of my 2017 residency in the castle. The sequence is accompanied by my own water-colours. … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to Hapi?

Posted on December 25, 2019 by

“Lord of the Fish and Birds of the Marshes” and “Lord of the River Bringing Vegetation”, Hapi is the Egyptian God of the Nile. He has one pendulous breast full of nourishment, as well as a pot-belly. He is God … Continue reading →

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