There Is No Other Stream
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Is it acceptable to paint what is eternal in the human condition and experience of the natural world, or is a work of Art only valid, as some say, if...
Can a myth be true? Yeats, Lewis and Tolkien
Monday 28 September 2020
Recently in my paintings I have been exploring the romantic and mythic poetry of W B Yeats (see the paintings Cap and Bells; Silver Trout; Penny, Brown...
Oscar Wilde and the Uselessness of Art
Saturday 12 September 2020
There is a popular polychrome sculpture of Oscar Wilde lounging on a rock at one corner of the grand eighteenth-century Merrion Square in Dublin. To...
Big cows and little cows: Father Ted on perspective
Tuesday 8 September 2020
In the comedy series Father Ted, the curate, Fr Dougal, is (characteristically) finding it difficult to understand why far away cows look smaller than...