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Guernica – 26 April 1937
No CommentsRead moreOn 26 April 1937, it was market day in Guernica, a small town in northern Spain considered to be the…
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iCan – a self-portrait as a folk artist
No CommentsRead moreMy iCan is a self-portrait in the folk art style; a picture of me in the form of all the…
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What is folk art?
No CommentsRead moreA few years someone described me as a folk artist. I’m not talking about music here, I’m talking about visual…
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The death of Johannes Gutenberg – 3 February 1468
No CommentsRead moreWhere would humanity be without the stone axe, the wheel, the plough, the compass and the steam engine? Likewise the…
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Clogs. Wooden shoe know it
No CommentsRead moreClogs: solid practical wooden footwear which used to be worn by people who worked on the land especially in the…
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The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest – 14 October 1066
No CommentsRead moreThe British Isles has a long history of invaders: Angles, Danes, Saxons, Vikings. But on the 28 September 1066, when…
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Kate Bush live – Before the Dawn
No CommentsRead moreThirty-five years after her previous live shows, Kate Bush stepped out onto the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon to rapturous…
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Wharf Stream Way waymarker post
No CommentsRead moreIn June, I submitted a design to be carved as a waymarker post as part of the The Wharf Stream…
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The death of Paul Gauguin – 8 May 1903
No CommentsRead more“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of ‘revolutionary’; and it is…
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What is a drypoint: badgers and bluebells
No CommentsRead moreWhat is drypoint print? How do you make one? I explain in this blog.
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