art

Proust and Japanese Prints

The French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922), author of In Search of Lost Time (A la recherché du temps perdu) was an intensely visual...

The Office Worker's Dream: A Self Portrait

The second print in the series 'Six Views of Dreams' is in fact a self portrait of myself in an office. It contains many details which I...

36 Views of the BT Tower: A Sudden Gust of Wind

Though not as popular as 'The Great Wave' or 'Red Fuji', 'A Sudden Gust of Wind' usually comes third in popularity in the series 36 Views...

Failure and Creativity: Some Things I Got Wrong

Around the end of the year, many people like to look back and measure their stages of development with their achievements. I do this too,...

36 Views of the BT Tower: Fireworks on the Thames and Sumida Rivers

As we approach the New Year, I felt it was appropriate to discuss my design of new year fireworks on the Thames and Hiroshige's...

The 'Lover's Dream'

"Some will say they do not wish to dream their lives away. As if life itself were not a dream, a very real dream from which there is no...

Foujita's Feline Friends

Foujita is most famous for his paintings of nudes and cats. Indeed, it's his paintings of cats that drew me to him the most. My other...

In Search of Foujita: An Artist's Pilgrimage (Part 2)

On Thursday 18th August, I arrived at my second stop of the Foujita trail: the Musee D'Art Moderne De Paris, which is interestingly...

The Lego 'Nanban' Ship of Fools

All art is a self-portrait, and this painting of a ship on gold leaf in mineral pigments is no different. It has a lot within to unpack...

Noh Performance and Ogata Korin's Painting

I recently had the opportunity to see Noh being performed in London. Noh is one of the oldest continous forms of theatre in the world...