symbols in art – John Allcock

What I owe to my school days

09/01/202529/05/2022 by John

My comments in the last couple of posts, about the character of art as manual labour, have set me off on a wave of reminiscence. The grammar school I went to was, in many respects, a model of institutions of that kind. (Suffice it to say that we studied latin.) Despite the elitist associations of … Read more

An artist of the moment?

09/01/202530/06/2020 by John

I had never thought of this before today, but it came to me that there might be two quite different ways of doing art. There are occasions on which I attempt to produce images that represent some kind of enduring idea, or symbol, that has a kind of durability about it. I suppose that the … Read more