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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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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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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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Van Gogh’s Tarascon Diligence at the Ashmolean
No CommentsRead moreTreasures from the Henry and Rose Pearlman collection Last week I went to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum to see treasures from…
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Squonk
No CommentsRead moreSide 1 track 3 of Genesis’ 1977 album Trick of the Tail tells the tale of the squonk, a mythical…
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Magic portal teapot
Read moreA visit to the Santiago house of poet Pablo Neruda. Known as the Chilean ‘Shakespeare’ and revered as that nation’s…
About art
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