When I was at school in the 1960s and 70s, there were those who could spell, and those who could not. Those whose lack of ability was...

The great English abstractionist Howard Hodgkin passed away in 2017. Had he lived, he would have been 91 on 6th August this year. Apart...

As my regular readers are aware, I am largely self-taught, and proud of it. I painted from a very young age, encouraged by my mother who...