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