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stephen HORNSBY-SMITH
Sep 30, 2020
Easter
S- Is this still about Easter ? R- I know right? S- You can't keep blaming your mother for missing Easter 1993 Randall? She was busy...
Sep 26, 2020
My eyes are falling
S- Do you not see that Randall? R- I'll add it to my mother's to do list ! 'She is a sweet old Lady' S- I know right?! R-I was being...
Sep 22, 2020
Why walk the plank of the past ?
All the crystal balls in the world may not be able to impact permanently on the choices we collectively and individually make. Indeed,...
Sep 22, 2020
Justify Democracy and Capitalism by human evolution
Any attempt to justify Democracy and Capitalism by human evolution through the pendulemic but permanent influence of 'society' must...
Sep 20, 2020
Society changes all
Is America truly a Ferrari driven like a lawn mower ? No! It is even in the most alarming or dysfunctional issues that the world learns...
Sep 19, 2020
Writers block and keyboard block ?
S- Does it really take you 9 pints to write Randall? R- It's either that or I maintain a strict schedule of monotony until my patience...
Sep 18, 2020
Smart People: A Rubric for knowing when to let go and move on
At this juncture I'll refer to the film 'Smart People' where middle-aged, self-absorbed widower Professor Wetherhold is divorced from his...
Sep 17, 2020
Gritty 21st century realism
Gritty 21st century realism is an admission of imperfection reconciled with limited jurisdiction to offer a degree of balance which...
Aug 22, 2020
Doctrinal influence
Doctrinal influence has shrunk since the Cold War, and a 'comprehensive society' of many layers, tiers, inputs and influence has...
Jul 30, 2020
Britain's Trade Union Society and Cold War Monetarism are No Longer Relevant for Today
There has been a marked departure from the Cold War monetarism, pre-war Keynesianism and dependency on an industrialised Britain's trade...
May 29, 2020
Restorative Injection
Can painting be a restorative injection of relieving the angst of modern global society and a rediscovery of balance by submission to the...
May 12, 2020
Force Majeure
Contemporary life ain't benign and art and science are pillars of unpredictability too. But there's an inevitability of force majeure...
Mar 12, 2020
Dialogue
R- Crawling? S- Just under a rock ! R- Don't look under it ! S- Don't look into it either! R- You'd better have a better than that ?! S-...
Mar 7, 2020
Not spilling the beans!
M- Stop all your fussing ! Don't call the midwife when you can hang-up ! R- And this is what she does to alcohol !! M- Suck on the...
Mar 1, 2020
Cohabitation between Painter and Paint for the 21st century
Original image making is your agenda and personal growth is your motivation. Reworking of old visual 'Texts' is not an agenda worth a lot...
Feb 26, 2020
Legacy?
How about Trump's administration's political Landscape? America is now divided by party political conflict, yet the US is in a position...
Feb 25, 2020
Paradox Works!!
Trump can be at his most effective when democrats "..are outraged by his tyranny"; here USA version of paradox works ! Or not? Or does it...
Feb 20, 2020
Biolooook
R- This? What this? Why are we.. S- ...............................Uncle Ezra's place ! R- Ezra the friend of Mike Lee ? S- Mr Die with...
Feb 20, 2020
Titian and his Venetian Lapis Lazuli
It wasn't until Afghan 'Lapis Lazuli revealed its secret blue colour for Painting that we were invited to share its connection of sea...
Feb 20, 2020
Social Mobility by the British way!
The 19th century was a century of change and expansion as Britain became the first to initiate the Industrial revolution. Indeed, the...
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