As an artist and lover of art history, I've always been fascinated by the unexpected connections between different cultures and artistic...

In a previous blog post I discussed the influence of Japanese prints on Proust. As a specialist of Chinese art at an auction house...

"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...

Since the pandemic began, I haven’t been able to travel back to China; but naturally my thoughts have returned there. There is one place...

In my studies of the Rinpa school in Japan and their techniques for my own paintings, I suddenly realised something that I didn't think...

A major part of traditional Japanese and Chinese painting is the use of mineral pigments. Nowadays, colours and paint can be made...

Sizing paper in the context I’m going to discuss isn’t about measuring the size, but rather applying a ‘sizing’ solution (usually some...