self-portraits – John Allcock

The artist as voyeur?

09/01/202528/11/2022 by John

The second exhibition I visited during my recent trip to London was the Lucien Freud show at the National Gallery. It was a curious experience not the least because I ended up having to revise quite considerably my estimation of his work. I have always been an admirer of Freud, and I think that the … Read more

“To see ourselves as others see us”

09/01/202515/11/2018 by John

The Scottish poet Robert Burns famously petitioned the gods to give us this gift. If only we could see ourselves as others see us we might escape from many of those self-deceptions for which the human race is notorious, and which are responsible for so much of our unhappiness. In a small measure, today, I … Read more