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Oh Hello! Long time no see. I had hoped that while I was taking a small hiatus from writing that the world may have calmed down, but it would appear that we are now living in a permacrisis (oh yes I did just use the new word introduced to the English dictionary), where we all... Continue Reading →
There are times, I feel that I have been born in the wrong era. I have almost a Victorian style fascination,(although I don't want to kill animals just for fun and I don't want to revive, what was lovingly known as freak shows) and anything that strays from the beaten track will capture my interest... Continue Reading →
On the 8th of March every year it is International Women’s Day. I am female and consider myself really privileged as I live in a society where, while there are still disparities between men and women, it is nothing compared to other cultures in the world. This said, there are still huge worlds apart for... Continue Reading →
You may remember a little while back I did an interview with Saki and Bitches. This was a great moment for me as she is an artist I really admire, and for her to agree to do an interview via email was a really exciting moment for me. So imagine my excitement, when she messaged... Continue Reading →
Do you remember the song "It's Raining Men", by the Weather Girls? They always made it sound like there was an abundance of Adonis like men falling from the sky, ready for the taking, which always conjured images of women being knocked out by a falling half naked man, for me... Or maybe you remember... Continue Reading →
I can already feel you yelling at me...WidowC... this guy isn’t an artist, he was a terrible American serial killer. Why are you dubbing him as an artist?? Much like everyone else, lockdown has presented me with the time to look at all the weird, wonderful and terrible things that are out there, and I... Continue Reading →
Here it is! 2021! We have finally put to bed the year that wasn’t, and yet we are still in some form of lockdown (even if we aren’t calling it that these days). I have found a new guilty pleasure though, while I am limited to hanging out at home and walking the dog, which... Continue Reading →
Well we are days away from the start of 2021, and while I do hope that the next year is more productive and less devastating that 2020 was, I also think we are in for a few more months of sitting around dreaming of when we can go out and ditch the ‘new normal’ in... Continue Reading →
I have had an article published on the Parkstone International website which you can find here It would be great if you would head in over and give it a read and then let me know what you think.
I saw a statement that struck me really odd the other day which was "feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings". This was said by Cheris Kramarae, and on the surface it seems a ridiculous statement, but underneath that is the world in which a lot of women find themselves in daily.... Continue Reading →
I am really proud to say that I have had this article published to celebrate Vincent Van Gogh’s life. You can find the article here
As you probably are aware by now, I also write for Parkstone International. This time I was asked to write on “The Guitar Lesson” by Balthus, which I find a fairly trying article to write. None the less, you can find the article here:- https://parkstone.international/2020/02/16/shelleys-art-scandal-that-painting-by-balthus/ Why not head over there to see the full painting... Continue Reading →
Japan is a beautiful country and I was mesmerised by the tidal patterns that I could see on the beaches. I know that sounds odd, as I live quite close to the sea, and I can see the tide changes when I please, but here in the UK we have fairly straight, undisturbed shorelines so... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas! I hope that you have all opened your presents and received everything you could want (or a plethora of socks and pants at least). I would like to take a moment to thank all of the people who have visited this website this year, I have been overwhelmed with the amount of readers... Continue Reading →
There are many reason why I question religion. Believe me, I would love to have the ultimate faith that some people feel, as I imagine it is really comforting to have a belief that will carry you through the thoughts of death, I also think it must be nice to have a like minded community... Continue Reading →
Having a completely overactive brain can be really confusing and a bit trying sometimes. It can be absolutely brilliant when you have a number of things to do as it can really assist with thinking about a lot of different things at once, making you a master of multitasking, but it can also make you... Continue Reading →
October, was frankly a horrible month. Everyone gets them, you know those months where just everything gets a bit too much. You have commitments that you can't let go of, but equally you just want to bury your head in the sand, everything comes to a head and it just leaves you feeling... drained and... Continue Reading →
It's that time again. I have had an article published on the Parkstone International feed. Would really appreciate you all taking a look. Perhaps leave some feedback. You can find the article here
Some times, I will see a snippet of a painting, which will intrigue me. This was one of those paintings. If you have seen the series called "Dark", you may have caught a glimpse in the first season, which led me to a three day hunt to find out which painting it was. As it... Continue Reading →
As a child I was obsessed with the darker fairy tales. I didn't really want to know about the princesses, I just wanted to know about the monsters and villains. I didn't necessarily want them to be victorious in the stories either, I just wanted to know more about them, as I felt they got... Continue Reading →
There are some artists who are very difficult to navigate around their pieces. I had the great pleasure of writing about Anselm Kiefer for Parkstone International. You can find the article here. Why not come back and let me know what you thought?
If you are a long time reader of this website, you will know that religion is one of the key themes, simply because it is so intrinsic in art. There is a vast amount of relgious art in every gallery you go to, or statues and monuments dedicated to the cause of story telling and... Continue Reading →
I write an awful lot about religion, simply because I am fascinated by it, but by far one of my most popular articles is about the fall of Lucifer. It isn't even a particularly in depth article, but I think that the reason it does so well, is actually like me, many people are intrigued... Continue Reading →
Peacocks are beautiful aren't they. I have recently had one tattooed on my leg as there is so much symbolism that surrounds them, they are vain and showy, but also deemed as royalty and a protector because of the association with with Hera from Greek mythology. When I saw this picture I was obviously drawn... Continue Reading →
Artists throughout the ages have been drawn to the anatomy of the living. Many artists through the centuries would have, what we would probably deem as morbid fascinations as they would strive to peak their artistic techniques to hone a true rendition of the living. They would attend autopsies, even steal limbs of the dead... Continue Reading →
Quite often people find art just a viewing interesting, which is where I think the feeling that a lot of people don't understand it, because they look it at, try and understand what the artist was trying to say, rather than what the piece means to them as a viewer and then it is quickly... Continue Reading →
Politics is a terrible business. I am sure that there are plenty of politicians who started out with great intentions, but those good intentions get lost along the way, which brings megalomania and corruption in to play. Ok, so I am in the UK and the worst that I see is a sever lack of... Continue Reading →
There is something intrinsically beautiful about raw emotion. Ok, it can be hard to deal with if it is directed at you, but when it is used in an expression of artistic intent, it gives the viewer or reader an honest and open idea of what the artist was feeling at the time of creation. ... Continue Reading →
When I was a kid, I really struggled to get my head around things happening at the same time if I couldn't see it happening. For example, I would get dropped off at my grandmothers while my parents worked. I would spend the day playing in her garden, or making cakes with her, and generally... Continue Reading →
I know I have been incredibly quiet over the last month, but hopefully you will appreciate why. I have been off on my travels and one of the stops was to see the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi. This was one of the most amazing experiences which has inspired me greatly and given me a... Continue Reading →
Elephants are truly majestic and amazing creatures aren't they? Intelligent and soulful and one of the greats which wonder the Earth, yet there are some that still feel that their tusks are better used by humans than by the elephant themselves. Without getting on my high horse about it, no one needs an elephants tusk...... Continue Reading →
I don't very often go for landscapy pictures, generally because either, while they are beautiful they don't hold a lot of meaning and they act more as a document to record what the landscape looked like to the artist at the time of painting, or they are generally lacking in activity. This isn't to say... Continue Reading →
Forgiveness is a really hard thing isn't it. We all like to think we can be gracious enough to forgive, but sometimes there are things which crop up and put little blockers in the way of being able to let go of the hurt, or the anguish that an act has caused you. It can... Continue Reading →
Life is fragile isn't it. Nothing quite brings that home as much as a death of a loved one. You realise that there are things that you took for granted from them - seeing them smile, listening to them moan, their little bad habits like turning the TV up too loud or snoring. This, maybe... Continue Reading →
Another article published on the Parkstone International website. I really enjoyed writing this one, so I hope you guys enjoy reading it. Head over to here to have a read. Remember to come back and let me know what you thought. Even better... share the article.
Life is full of ups and downs, and at times it can really feel like a roller coaster. Sometimes that means you do and say stupid things to those closest to you, sometimes it means you do the smallest things which can mean the world to someone else. What is also evident is no matter... Continue Reading →
You know, the world is full of things which makes your brain believe that it can see something which isn’t actually there. You know what I am talking about… things like seeing a hot dog in clouds or a face in the pattern of fabric. It’s called Pareidolia, and it is a psychological phenomenon where... Continue Reading →
I have been on holiday... In case you wondered why I had been quiet. It has been a crazy week, with a trip to Brussels and then a mad dash to Lincoln to watch two amazing people get married, so this left very little time to sit down and write, but while I was away,... Continue Reading →
As you may well know, I write articles for Parkstone International as well. Here is my latest one. https://parkstone.international/2018/08/17/shelleys-art-musings-spotlight-on-rembrandt/
You know, I wrote a whole opening gambit about the oddities of death for this piece, but I decided to remove it as actually it is something which so many people (including myself) struggle with immensely. The written word can, at times, seem wholly impersonal, and I don't think any of my readers want to... Continue Reading →
If you are in the UK, you will know that we have diverted our moaning about the weather from it being too cold or wet, as it has been too hot and muggy. Thankfully the weather has now broken and we are back to grey skies and rain, but for a couple of weeks there,... Continue Reading →
I have been pretty quiet, I know, and I apologise, but I have started a new job, and I am sure you all remember what a new job entails... endless bombardment of new information and frantically trying to look like you know what you are doing. This does impact my creative flow a little. This... Continue Reading →
I have been pretty quiet over the weekend, as I had a tooth pulled out, and this momentarily gave me a dip in my inspiration. Not that my tooth being pulled has anything to do with Turner and his paintings, but I guess that there is a vague link to my tooth and the Temeraire... Continue Reading →
I am, quite often referred to as a 'night owl'. I don't sleep well as I have mentioned a few times before, and I can often be found wandering through the internet late at night. Usually I am looking at some sort of art or watching crazy YouTube videos about spiders, or trying to find... Continue Reading →
I have really had fun writing these posts, as it has given me a lot to look over in areas that interest me - art (albeit some of it awful), Greek mythology and the actions of people. I have received some great feedback from readers, so if there are other things like this, that you... Continue Reading →
I apologies now for starting on an ugly picture, but I left off just before the Cretan bull, and frankly the pictures of Putin in heroic Greek stance get uglier from here on out... but as Magnus Magnusson used to say..."I've started, so I'll finish" (for anyone who isn't British and have no clue that... Continue Reading →
I don't really know if you have been on tenterhooks or not for the next round of Putin as Hercules, but I am hoping that you are finding the perception of him fascinating! So where were we? Hercules had Killed the lion and the hydra and got the deer. Putin has fought with terrorism, staved... Continue Reading →
Anyone who has been reading this blog a while, or who knows me, will probably know that I have a very dry sense of humour. I find people watching one of the best activities for my humour to take full force, so when I read about foreign leaders and their antics, it fills me with... Continue Reading →
Fate and destiny are funny things aren't they. On one hand I don't believe that anyone has a predefined route to life, you make your own way and what happens happens. On the other hand, I do believe that you meet certain people for a reason and that no matter how long someone stays in... Continue Reading →
I usually avoid cubism as it isn't my favourite form of art... to me it takes surrealism to a degree I am not overly comfortable with on a viewing level, which I know might sound odd from a self professed surrealism lover, but I just don't see the need for cubism, but we all have... Continue Reading →
Have you seen Google today? It is celebrating Tamara de Lempicka's 120th birthday. Lempicka was an accomplished Art Deco artist who lived between 1898 and 1980. She was very well known for her stylised portraits of the aristocracy as well as painting nudes. She was the mistress to Baron Raoul Kuffner, and after his wife... Continue Reading →
Life has been crazy busy recently, with studying for my Greek mythology course and writing the first assignment (which I have to say was a trial in itself for me as I am used to writing more than 500 words in a blog post, so why someone thinks that I could explain who has the... Continue Reading →
I am not the biggest fan of still life. It is usually some chintzy flowers in a Royal Doulton vase, or some lack lustre fish in a bowl. The pallet is usually dim and the backgrounds feel musty, just making the whole picture look as though it belongs in your great aunt Mildred's house which... Continue Reading →
History is fascinating. I have only found this since getting a bit older, as in school I only seem to remember studying the first world war. If you had spoken to me at the age of 18 I could have told you a lot about trench foot, trench warfare and no mans land. We never... Continue Reading →
You know when people tell you to "cheer up, it could always be worse"? My usual response is "Yes, I could be on a sinking ship", I was fairly happy with this response until recently, when a friend of mine came out with "You could be a conjoined twin". My initial reaction was to laugh,... Continue Reading →
There are many evils in the world. On a small scale... Anchovies. On a larger scale war, murder, rape, abuse, bullying... we each have our own version of what evil looks like, yet we unite in the iconic images which represent an wrong done or atrocity created. I think we can all pretty much agree... Continue Reading →
I have been crazy busy the last few days. I have started my Greek mythology course and been surrounding myself in the Homeric world of "The Iliad", thankfully I downloaded the audio book, so that I could be wallpapering while immersing myself in the Trojan war. I have also been out and about meeting lots... Continue Reading →
It's been a while since I have written about the Greeks, and with a course on Greek mythology looming for me, I thought perhaps I should start reading some of the study text. I really find mythology so fascinating, especially the Greek, simply because it really does still play a massive role in our culture... Continue Reading →
If you weren't aware, sport season generally has exploded. I am not the biggest fan of any sport really, but I do appear to be surrounded with sports fanatics where I work and this means, if I want any conversation at all, I at least have to feign an interest in whatever implement or appendage... Continue Reading →
A few days ago I found myself involved in a conversation about hidden potential. The upshot of this was that, I could potentially, play football for England this year if I put my mind to it. Sure, I am not fit in anyway, nor do I understand the offside rule, and the thought of chasing... Continue Reading →
I guess I can't really ignore that it is Easter. Hopefully you are all enjoying a bountiful stash of chocolate eggs and celebrating in a befitting manner. Personally I am enjoying the fact that I get a couple of extra days off, but for those of you that have a deeper meaning to this weekend,... Continue Reading →
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