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My Painting/Epilogue

Quantum Poetics mock up of extended format.Although I have done nothing to it since last March a lot has happened in and to Quantum Poetics.It has moved to the studio in Bellenden Road to be hung in...

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More balls

Black-haired ball nearing completion, 2010.I was quite wrong. My last comments on the signature configuration of earlier balls led to a small supply of vintage examples from ever helpful suspects. One...

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Blackballed

Back from Berlin after the launch of 'African Goldweights' at the Barbara Wien Gallery. The show looked handsome and I am happy with the book, yet another collaboration with Hansjorg Mayer, my...

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I'll Go On

Any artistic career has its vanities. One area at least in which I thought myself the British pioneer was the artist's book. This is now a genre in its own right taught earnestly in colleges here and...

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Modem form a poetry... Get with it!

Flora, my wise and sophisticated stepdaughter shows me the study manual that accompanies her labours with A level English. And lo! Here I am in the glossary of Edexcel A2 English Literature Student...

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I'll go on (continued)

Quantum Poetics, July 2010, Oil on panel.Like those stages of the World Cup in which England feebly participated my painting Quantum Poetics has turned into a game of two halves. What, in a recent...

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Anyone for Tennis?

The Seven Ages of Man, 2010, artist's hair on tennis balls.At last after a few years of squint and tweezers I have assembled, like the notes of an octave, a set of seven well-tempered tennis balls....

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Rail Diversions & Flowers NYC

My railings have just been officially unveiled at no1 Grafton Street... nice for a veteran Monopoly player to have at last a stake in Mayfair. There was no mention in the opening speech (by the...

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Flowers NYC opening

Wittgenstein's Dilemma, 1999, silkscreen on acrylic cube. Photo Ben Drury.Back once again on Einstein Drive after an enjoyable opening at Flowers, my first in their splendid new gallery on W20th. The...

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A Humument App

On returning from Princeton the big excitement at Peckham HQ is presiding over the final birth throes of my Humument app for iPad which is now up and running thanks to midwives Lucy and Alice,...

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Biochemical Society Medal

 See what you get if you practise, as Liberace used to say, pausing at the keyboard to flash his huge diamond ring at children gathered round the stage.This is the Biochemical Society's highest honour...

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Brushes with the future

Having downloaded the Brushes app on my iPad I was keen to try it out. An evening at the venerable London Sketch Club armed with no other drawing tools put me nicely on the spot.With half hour poses...

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The Remains of the Day (My Painting Epilogue I)

The Remains of the Day, 2011, recycled acrylic palettes on board, h41 x w76.5cmIt's all Daphne's fault. Meeting my friend the admirable portrait painter Daphne Todd at Green & Stones in the King's...

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App for iPhone

To celebrate the appearance of A Humument App on iPhone I shall shortly add a dozen or so newly revised pages. The first to change will be page 1 (which is what one sees on opening the app) in its...

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Nothing like a regular client...

Rima's Song, comic book collage, 2005Fifty years ago I sold (for £12) my first picture to a proper collection, that of the JCR of Pembroke College,  Oxford. This was a watercolour called The City. Last...

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Word Cross

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Vintage People on Photo Postcards

The transfer of my archive to the Bodleian Library might have felt like parcelling up one foot and posting it direct to the grave. But it has not been like that at all: the opposite in fact, for out of...

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Ornament

Ornament, pencil 2011, 30cm diameterLong ago I teamed myself up with Jessica Rawson to prepare an exhibition at the Royal Academy that would define and celebrate Ornament. We made a trip to the vaults...

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Cicero

  When you meet someone you haven't encountered for sixty years you shouldn't be surprised to find them changed utterly. So it is in my case with Tully, as Marcus Tullius Cicero was always referred to...

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Coin for the Olympics

Design for 2012 Olympics Silver kilo coin, 2011, watercolour.Gutted by yet again being passed over for a place in our Olympics table tennis team I had resigned myself to having no role in the 2012...

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