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...

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...

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...

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...

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...