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Beautiful Objects
How could you ditch, jettison and cast into the oblivion of rejection such beautiful objects to be second -hand tat rescued by chance?...
Apr 11, 2016


Easter's Fresh Start
Easter's Fresh Start: Simple, easy and meaningful social debate. I find myself discovering, paradoxically, humanist qualities in Christ's...
Apr 4, 2016


Fresh Start?
Here are some issues of my attempt at a fresh start. Is there a Tory dialect and paradigm that doesn't rely on bullish pragmatism? How...
Mar 30, 2016


Dare we?
Dare we eat the peach? Picking mix? Run for the hills? Seal The metaphorical channel tunnel? Save or gain or independence? Swing their...
Mar 16, 2016


Checks and balances and other weapons of choice
The 18th century founding fathers of the American constitution would be ambivalent to its 21st-century application because there are...
Mar 5, 2016


Don't let New Labour screw up new modernity again
“A warning from the recent past.” It would be trite to say New Modernity was tarnished by political personalities in the labour party,...
Feb 8, 2016


Review of Melting Snow Papercuts
Although original authorship of this reproduction of an image from a painting is not questioned, the transference of it to a new medium...
Feb 6, 2016


Political Hijacking? But by Whom?
1. Redistribution of ownership wealth. Firstly, Privatisation shares and secondly sale of council houses to occupiers; policies that are...
Feb 2, 2016


Formative Politics of the 1970s
What happened to Punk? What happened to counter-punk? At a time of great British demographic social change in the 1970’s, 2 sides drew...
Jan 31, 2016


Being Vigilant or Being a Vigilate?
BEING VIGILANT OR BEING A VIGILANTE, THAT IS THE GORE VIDAL QUESTION? 'Having seen a biography of Gore Vidal (GV), I’d like to add my...
Jan 18, 2016


Did the Iron Lady Create Teflon Tony?
DID THE IRON LADY CREATE TEFLON TONY AND CAMERON’S ‘MODERN CONSERVATISM’? Britain has been well governed (more or less) since...
Jan 2, 2016


Who Turned New Labour?
The impact on British politics of ‘Thatcher’s downfall ‘was immediate. Britain felt bereft of the dominant leader it had got used to. So...
Jan 2, 2016


Update on 'The Politics and Art of Surrealism'
In our cultural climate sensitized to economic crisis and political instability we can identify with the formative period between two...
Dec 26, 2015


Make the Most of the American Dream
All societies have a modus operandi, Britain has a liberal democratic constitutional monarchy that has evolved over millennia that has...
Dec 23, 2015


Unexplored Potential
1. I want to mount one painted canvas on top of another This could bring a metaphorical’ landscape’ that either has some chemistry...
Nov 23, 2015


Information is power
But it is the acquisition of self-knowledge that corrupts man. To be metaphorically drunk on ones own freedoms is to be free only...
Nov 19, 2015


Why blame your tools for shoddy workmanship?
One could argue pessimistically that the only redeeming factor of human nature is its release of dopamine and endorphins, pleasure...
Oct 26, 2015


The Accidental Death of "Meaningful" Politics, or The "Bearpit of Democracy"?
Bertrand Russell argued that the fundamental motivation of man is self-destructive, but I want to take issue with that. Man is capable of...
Oct 12, 2015


Painting Is History?
Art historians boasted of the ‘demise’ of Painting in the 1980’s. But was Painting finished? Its originality exhausted? Its frontiers of...
Sep 12, 2015


These paintings deal with exile
These paintings deal with exile, anger and yet the absence of brutalisation of my work. Amidst the passion and addictive struggles of my...
Aug 3, 2015
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