May 4th  saw the passing of the prominent American artist Frank Stella. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1936, this highly distinctive...

As my regular readers are aware, I am largely self-taught, and proud of it. I painted from a very young age, encouraged by my mother who...

Back in the mid 1980's, I used to drink with the brilliant cartoonist and commercial artist Willem Van Beek (the Flying Dutchman as we...