If I mention the word ‘College’ the image that probably comes to mind immediately is that of a group of bland, modern buildings set in...

'Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it,' (Charles R Swindoll) It’s hard to believe it was just two months ago that...

‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware,’ (Martin Buber, Philosopher) On this occasion the apparent...

Children's art always delights. Here I take a look at why this is so, and offers a technique to help us find a why back to innocence.

The old olive tree isn’t done with me yet…she’s clamouring for more attention. She has so much to tell, yet does not have the words. I am...

So I had a break from the studio last week. In fact, I took advantage of the current freedom to travel between the Balearic Islands,...

'Eight Miles Only in Thirty Hours...' so wrote the little known artist, Marianne North, in 1865 during a trip in Egypt, one of the...

There’s the question, and there are probably as many answers as there are works of art since every creation is a completely unique...

‘The difficulty is in trying to relate the imagined world to the authorised version of it, which is secure and which people don’t want to...

Not something I would normally do willingly, without resistance but then I didn’t really have the choice. Someone had done me a favour...

'There is so much wisdom locked up in the stories women don’t tell' (Elaine Welteroth), but sometimes, just sometimes, they leave a trace...

…and never does this seem truer than right now, when the almond trees are in exuberant bloom, and the sunbeams spotlight the delicate...

When change dominates our lives and one fragile moment follows another at breathtaking pace, the qualities we most need to find are those...

Back in the day, when pubs were dimly-lit places where what little light there was came filtered through a haze of cigarette smoke, and...

Now here’s an unlikely connection - the film My Octopus Teacher and an artist’s preoccupation with one particular tree. I’ve just watched...

Every time I have been commissioned to make a work of art for someone, it has felt like an honour. The reason why came to me recently,...

The weeks slip by and each day slides, almost unnoticed, into the next. So, here we are, past the halfway mark for the year, past the...

A ball of red thread, unravelled as he entered, led Theseus out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth after he’d killed the beast, then returned...

‘Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.’...

‘A drawing‘ is the result of seeing. When I draw the tree, I am faced with a mystery. I must enter into this mystery or fail. Whatever I...