Or so they say.  Tackling the windows project certainly requires a change in my work practice, and I’m beginning to think that whatever the outcome it could be refreshing. It has become clear that I am actually going to be required to draw these windows three times.  The first version is a strategic planning exercise, … Read more

Both the magnitude and the artistic purposes of my window designing task are starting to register. I’ve already had to email a list of four questions to Bob the glass man, and no doubt there will be a similar list before the week-end is out. One of the central aims I want to set myself … Read more

Over the past two days I’ve been down in Oxfordshire, visiting the National Defence Academy.  Why, you might ask, would a former regional organiser for CND want to visit such a place?  The rather surprising response is that I have been invited to put forward a design to be considered for two stained glass windows … Read more

We went up to How Stean again today, to collect my pictures at the end of my exhibition, and managed to get in a nice walk first.  Oddly, it was only in the last mile that I started to see things which might be interesting from an artistic point of view.  To see things properly … Read more

We went up to South Square again yesterday.  I like to look at the exhibitions apart from the opening night: after all, the point is to actually see the art, not the punters.  As usual I thought that the shows in the “minor” galleries were better than that in the “main” gallery.  Sammy Palfrey, in … Read more

Well: I suppose I begin at the beginning.  I’ve just got back from a two-week tour of my old stamping ground in the Balkans (Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje).  We’ve been talking about the possibility of doing this for several years.  I think the emotional obstacles to this were greater than the practical ones.  In any case, … Read more