Firstly, apologies for the absence of activity in this column for well over a month. I have been going through some stressful times, and...

I have just returned from a short holiday in one of my favourite places on earth, the Languedoc mountains in Southern France, where I...

When my mother trained at art college in the 1940's and 50's, she spent an entire year studying anatomy and life-drawing. As a result of...