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From The Archive
I've done a lot of life drawing over the years at a variety of places, from scruffy art college classrooms at Chealsea and Camberwell to...
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An Exhibition Not Seen
I was really looking forward to the National Gallery’s latest blockbuster exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers . The gallery website...
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Monet Magic
The Courtauld Gallery exhibition Monet and London: Views of the Thames  brings together a group of paintings that were first exhibited in...
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Bark
Clapham Wood is a place I've visited many times in the spring, when the whole place is covered in bluebells. I remember going there with...
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Still Life Forever
This Pallant House Gallery exhibition, called The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain , starts with Dutch paintings from the...
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Rocky Arrangements
Low tide reveals big ragged flints, smooth little pebbles, lumps of chalk, sculptural hag stones and worm casts, all strewn across the...
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A Visit to Charleston
I love wandering around historic houses and Charleston, near Lewes in East Sussex, is a particularly delightful place to visit, being the...
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Sea Changes
I consider the sea off Worthing as my little bit of the English Channel. Sometimes it's a clear and beautiful aqua-green colour,...
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Jacobean Extravaganza
Surprising, magical and spectacular are the best words to use when describing the Collector Earl’s Garden at Arundel Castle. As a Sussex...
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Sargent & Fashion
This exhibition at Tate Britain explores the importance of costume in John Singer Sargent’s portraits of members of high society in the...
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Flower Power
I love visiting gardens and there are some places not too far from Worthing where you can enjoy amazing examples of garden design,...
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A Search for Freedom
I recently visited the marvellous Pallant House Gallery in Chichester to see the retrospective exhibition of John Craxton, called A...
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Memories of London
I left my home town to study for a degree in Art History at Middlesex University, at the Trent Park campus just north of High Barnet....
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Winter in Wales
In December 2009 I spent some time in Talywern in Mid Wales. The journey from London was long, with multiple changes of trains, and I got...
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Movie Lovers
I spent a lot of my youth watching old movies on TV. I was mad about Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Montgomery Clift. I...
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Wood Grain
Timber groynes are designed to control the movement of sand and pebbles parallel to the shore line by wave action, known as longshore...
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Sedgwick Park
The Grade II listed mansion at Sedgwick Park in Nuthurst near Horsham dates from the seventeenth century and it's surrounded by glorious...
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Memories of Mid Wales
I fell in love with a place call Talywern, a hillside hamlet six miles east of the market town of Machynlleth in the county of Powys, Mid...
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Rusty
Rust is an iron oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of moisture. Given sufficient time, any iron mass in the...
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Art Around the Town
Having recently discovered First & Last (a shop selling gorgeous things) I went there for the private view of Tidal Paintings by Trevor...
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