In the run-up to Christmas I mentioned the series of drawings on which I was engaged, on the theme of Wassail! (an old English folk custom associated with mid-winter.) The collection as a whole was really a kind of personal meditation on Englishness, with a strongly autobiographical strain. These were turned into a set of … Read more
Several days ago I reported on the somewhat puzzling British response to the current virus crisis of buying up extra supplies of toilet paper. This afternoon I came across a report that in the USA there have been queues to buy guns! Given the choice between living in a country that is mildly eccentric and … Read more
I do find it interesting the way in which I suddenly find that I have a new project. It is not that I plan things this way. All of a sudden I discover that I have been working at it for a little time, but didn’t realise that it was a “project”. Several weeks ago … Read more