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World War 1 – Charles Fouqueray – artist

I just acquired 9 wonderful prints by Charles Fouqueray – a war artist I had never heard of. Charles Dominique Fouqueray (Le Mans, 23 April 1869 – 28 March 1956) was a French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand … Continue reading

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My Father and his Motorbike with its Side-car

WILDERNESS ROAD x While seagulls fight for lamp‑posts near the timber stores, Inside the drawer, his folded airmail fades. Behind those bricked-up windows, boarded doors, His motor-bike once led your small parades. x You lost its little rider where the … Continue reading

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Destruction of The City

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Terror in the Sudan

Mass murder has been going on in the Sudan for years. It just got worse.

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The Warrior

x I am not suffering, me, from post-traumatic stress disorder. There is a reason for what we do. Their wives have weaponised Their wombs. Our problem is our democracy. We call it mowing the lawn, think of it as a … Continue reading

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Cherem – for Palestine

A new video on Youtube Cherem is a slideshow created with lead pencil on black watercolour.   “Extremist rabbis fool the Jews by citing ancient texts That seek to prove that genocide is sacred if pronounced “Cherem”. Cherem dictates that … Continue reading

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Art and Anger

We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored. Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with … Continue reading

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the state of the world today

Colonel Macgregor is to my mind one the most astute commentators on the state of affairs that exists in the world today, and this interview with a German site gives a very good introduction to his thought. Douglas Abbott Macgregor … Continue reading

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Aphrodite and Ares

Click for my new slide show APHRODITE AND ARES Since starting to draw with my eyes closed in March 2023 I have been investigating the myth of Aphrodite, Ares and Hephaestos. See Vulcan’s Net and LIW.  In the Iliad, as … Continue reading

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Love, Industry and War

Love, Industry and War A silent slideshow, drawn with the eyes closed. Part of the LIW Project: a revisiting of a myth: Venus, Vulcan her husband and Mars, her lover. Vulcan trapped them in flagrente – in a golden net.

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