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With the arrival of Spring the winterhard Goddesses of Fate have mellowed and some of my long time endeavours have been favourably smiled on. Firstly I am super pleased to announce that the Ashmolean Museum has acquired a complete set of my The Crying Game prints. And for those of you who want to see the prints here in...

After eight months of making prints and an artist book I am back to painting. I know this is no great shakes in the scheme of things but I am happy sleeping in the sweet smell of terpentine again and besides it keeps me out of trouble. You might have to wait awhile for these paintings to be seen...

It has been an unsettling year for all of us, some people have responded with boundless generosity, others with often violently expressed intolerance and some have found creative outlets. I belong to the last lot and have voiced my bewilderedness and sadness in a series of 20 etchings The Crying Game, in which I not only questioned our default...

Like many artist I get invited to donate work for charity auctions and to some I give with a wholehearted yes. Freedom from Torture does work which is very close to my heart and they have collected splendid selection of artworks to support their activities. A Line Under Torture – Bid Online catalogue has now opened. My gift (lot...

Summer has disappeared into Autumn and, in keeping with the seasons, my laissez-faire attitude has turned to full fledged activity. Unsettled by the wars and saddening stream of refugees who for the grace of could be any of us. I have started on a series of drawings into etchings which highlights the grief we are constantly creating by dividing...

Marcelle Hanselaar: FACING HISTORY – CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, 27 JULY 2015 – 26 FEBRUARY 2016. Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture is a display of 80 prints and photographs drawn from the V&A’s collection, exploring the variety of artists’ responses to the idea of portraiture over the last 20 years. On display is work by over 20 artists...

After last years hectic exhibition program I am creative wise flat-lining, a good time to read, to wander around and perhaps discover things and play with bits and pieces in my studio just for fun. That kind of aimless break is really important. The above does not mean that nothing is happening of course. First I got a print,...

Yesterday I went to the Royal Academy varnishing day to drink bubbles and eat strawberries to celebrate with hundreds of other artists the opening of the Summer Exhibition. Although I had submitted a painting and a print its my prints which seem to get through the stringent selection process. Today the first sales dot appeared and the sun was...