One of our trips during our recent expedition to London was to the National Gallery. This fitted well with our interests for two reasons. Not long ago we watched a TV film about Turner, and also I thought that it would fit well also with my developing interest in the diversity of relationships depicted in … Read more
We spent a really interesting evening yesterday catching up on some TV programmes my wife had recorded. There were two films about J.M.W. Turner, both of them rather old now, but interesting because they presented very different sides of the artist, and contrasting ways of approaching the interpretation of his art. The first was presented … Read more
I’m back in a familiar predicament, only with a new twist. How can I tell when a picture is finished? I had resigned myself to taking off the drawing board my latest effort, and putting it up on the display boards in the studio. That would ensure that at least I didn’t go on staring … Read more