In my hope to be recognised I recently submitted a couple of pieces to an open competition with the Royal Scottish Academy. Imagine my excitement…
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At the moment there is the unfolding medieval horror of the siege of the city of Aleepo. If that wasn’t bad enough we have to…
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Good News… Firstly, I received an e-mail from Marillion’s manager. It was really nice, I even got a kiss! Anyway I have permission to use a song…
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I miss drawing pens. They were good to work with. There I’d be tapping away incessantly to my mother’s intense irritation. She took to banging…
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When I was little, my parents always flirted over meals and Dad would give marks out of ten for the cooking. My late mother Maddy…
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This landscape in portrait mode (see After The Flood in the gallery) is apparently an unforgiveable transgression! I am baffled as to why. To be fair it…
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In its last exhibition a member of the audience stridently asked of the stewards “Can tell me about that beautiful painting? What does NFS mean?”…“Oh…
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My Best Man Bob. We met at University. Initially we really would not tolerate one another. After about three months, one of the girls in…
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