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Shine Here to Us : My Week in View
In a week of troubled and darker skies I have finished painting a sunrise. The sun is our constant source of light and life. It never fails us and inspires awe in its power and grandeur. John Donne wrote wonderfully about our Suns eternal source in his poem "The Sun...
Matisse the Master : My Week in View
For as long as I can remember Matisse has been, with Picasso, the defining inspiration for creative modern artists. He hovers above us always out of reach as both painter and sculptor of genius. One of my personal claims to fame was that I was alive before he died in...
Whistler in the Darkness : My Week in View
I am member of the Chelsea Arts Club, a wonderful institution founded in 1891 by the painter James McNeill Whistler. He is, I think, still an underrated artists who influenced many and fought the battle for modernism, nearly ruining himself in the process. His famous...
Bowie to Rodin, Mythologies : My Week in View
Bowie: Art’s survivors are a special breed, not just the classics but those artists who continue to be relevant throughout their lifetime and beyond. This week I was again working on lyrics for a song with composer Thol Mason on the theme of Icarus and myth of human...
Abstract : My Week in View
Everything comes around they say and art movements like fashion can also have a cyclical nature. One day the zeitgeist is just ready to understand or revisit ideas. Abstract painting, once the centre of the storm in the post-war art world is making something of a...
Life Class : My Week in View
I was taken by friends to the play Calendar Girls this week and in the play the characters have to be semi-naked on stage, which is very brave of the actors, as is all performance in public that calls for revealing the unclothed body. Kenneth Clark wrote brilliantly...