Walter Sickert – John Allcock

Making the acquaintance of Walter Sickert

09/01/202509/09/2022 by John

Before yesterday my knowledge of Walter Sickert was thin indeed. I had some awareness of the general regard in which he is held in the history of British art, but that amounted to very little. As a consequence, when Tate Britain announced a major retrospective review of his work I decided that this was an … Read more

Children evidently have it!

09/01/202507/09/2022 by John

By which, I mean, the sense of what it means to play a game. Walking across the Cathedral Close in Salisbury the other day we spotted a group of very young children….mere tots….who had devised a game involving running round a tree. It was evident that they were not just randomly running around, but that … Read more