I am aware that it's been a while since I last posted. I have had a few worries and preoccupations. I was also laid low with persistent...

I have a friend – though sadly we have been out-of-touch for a while – who had a cat named Edgar. This, she said, was in tribute to the...

A painting of wild, noisy and joyous exuberance hangs in the Tate Modern Gallery in London. It is HIP HIP HOORAH by the Netherlands-born...

In the early part of 2022, I produced a quartet of paintings which I entitled my 'Manifestation' series. Shortly after this, my career...

Well, not me or my mind, particularly – though some might consider the title apposite! Instead, I refer to https://www.thecrazymind.com/,...

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Today, October 26th, sees the anniversary of the birth of a true abstract pioneer, the Swedish artist Hilma Af Klint. Producing her...

With a nod to Blaise Pascal, I would like to introduce today my new painting, THE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE. This 40 x 40 cm oil painting...

In the early years of the twentieth century, the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff had been searching for inspiration for a...

There is a great deal of music, both in my erstwhile professional genre of classical piano, and in other very diverse forms, which...

I'm going to be honest. I've just discovered a 'new' artist, courtesy of my Windows 10 Lock Screen. It will never do to be pretentious...

Today I am delighted to welcome to my column the second of my Guest Writers, Petra Teršlová, from Kladno, in the Czech Republic. I first...

As some of you know, I consider the Languedoc in Southern France to be my spiritual home. The Languedoc is, for me, about primeval...

I opened my Instagram this morning, expecting to find the usual ridiculous plethora of bot comments inviting me to sell my work as NFT....

The great English abstractionist Howard Hodgkin passed away in 2017. Had he lived, he would have been 91 on 6th August this year. Apart...

I frequently find myself bracing, inwardly, for the question “What does it mean?” “Haydn”, they ask, “what were you thinking about while...

For many years, I have been naggingly interested in the artistic idea of creation through destruction. In my painting EMERGENT INTIMACY,...

Regular and long-standing readers may remember earlier articles in which I have spoken of my creative process; of the very first fizzing...

Something a little irreverent (though not intentionally irrelevant) for today – I'm allowed to, for today's post marks this blog's...

I am a Jazz enthusiast. As many of you know, I had a former career as a concert pianist; I no longer play concerts, though I continue to...