Echoes & Origins – Painting & Writing

I’ve started painting again. Ten years ago I put my easel under the bed, for good reasons at the time (children, space, lack of inspiration, life, blah). But now it’s out and dominating my energies late at night in that gap between feeling tired and actually forcing myself up to bed. Although I write in the mornings at the weekend, …

William Blake's Urizen featured in many of his paintings and poetic works

William Blake: Artist and Revolutionary.

William Blake  (28 Nov 1757 – 12 Aug 1827), artist, poet and philosopher, is perhaps easier to admire than understand. The breadth of his vision, the tortured eloquence of his craftsmanship and the bloody-mindedness of his daily life all speak of an intellect wrestling with fantastic worlds that boil and fester within. Artistically he was influenced by Raphael, Michelangelo and …

Barry Moser: Artist, Engraver, Storyteller.

“Barry Moser’s illustrations are exquisite beyond the telling. He soars at an altitude where only such wondrous birds of passage as Lynd Ward and Rockwell Kent have tasted the wind. The passion, craft and imagination of Moser’s work have an impact that leaves the viewer speechless.” Harlan Ellison, the brilliant, maverick writer of the fantastic, on one of my favourite arists, Barry …