Category: Art

  • Banksy: from Kirkwall to Glasgow

    Banksy: from Kirkwall to Glasgow

    I am one for letting journeys unfold, as planning ahead is not my forte. Sometimes one experience segues into another, like when I managed to get a ticket to the Cut and Run Exhibition at the Glasgow GoMA. This exhibition is probably the closest Banksy will come to doing a retrospective and sharing something of…

  • East Side Gallery Berlin
  • Neue Museum Berlin

    Neue Museum Berlin

    Paradoxically, I didn’t photograph the most famous exhibit of the Neue Museum. Like the Mona Lisa, Queen Nefertiti has her own special room, a space that has a beauty in itself. The artistry of this bust is unsurpassable, with fine sculpting that is befitting of the Queen’s delicate fine boned face. What did the artist…

  • Artist in the spotlight: Jenny Watson – don’t fence me in

    Artist in the spotlight: Jenny Watson – don’t fence me in

    Initially the composition of this painting unsettled me; too much fence not enough dog. I spent a good deal of time contemplating before I realised that the placement of the dog is a key to understanding the work. Cyclone Fence with Great Dane is an ambitious early work by Australian  artist Jenny Watson completed in…

  • Evening Walk, Marcus Creek

    Evening Walk, Marcus Creek

    Cloud reflections in Marcus Creek, a coastal creek in Noosa, Queensland, Australia

  • The magic of letting go

    The magic of letting go

    “Are you sure you want to get rid of the table?” asked Col, knowing that I’d taken considerable time to get all the water-damaged broken chipboard and tiles off the top of the salvaged coffee table before giving it a new life. “I’ve had the fun of transforming it and using it. Someone else might…