Sorry, this isn’t a display of my paintings. It’s a display of those dedicated artists associated with the Neo-Raphaelite movement. The purists of that class painted illustrative, ornate works that could be cold and stand-offish in nature. However, there were many who added their own style to the original Neo-Raphaelite style to produce some truly…
All the memories. A smell, a sight, a sound. The smallest things evoke a flood of shadowy echoes from the past. I walk across a bridge then halt in my tracks with the sudden realization that I have done so before. Years ago. Yup, that’s the Oxford experience. Walking around Christ Church a week…
I was just making up cool titles and book ideas for no apparent reason just now. The Sign of Jonah Dipyramid 2 Teaspoons of Morphine Enstupidated A Greater Rage Echolalia Not Weird, Just Different: A Book of Euphemisms Shattered Hunting Down the Wind She Came by Day So I Hated Life Dissolved Stars God of…
As an American, I can say with confidence that England is an idiosyncratic character. In short, England is weird. Here are some samples. An artist called Mark McGowan is attempting to cartwheel from Brighton to Londonto protest people taking stones from beaches. Two years ago Mr McGowan pushed a monkey nut for seven miles to…